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Officers National Grange.

hiAs'rr.n——S. E. ADAMS, Minn.

Ovnasiu-:n——J. J. WOODMAN, Mich.
Lise-rusna——MORT’MR WHITEHEAD, N J.
S'l'EWARD—A. J. VAUGHN. Miss.

Assr. S'rirwAim—WILLIAM SIMS, Kansas.
CE.LPLAIN—A. P. FORSYTH, Illinois.
TnnAsusnr.—F. M. McDOWELL, N. Y.
Sr;cmr'ris.ir—\Vm. M. IRELA1-\lD,Wash’ton,D.C.
GATE-KEEPER——U. DINWIDDIE, Indiana.
Canes-Mus. S. E. ADAMS, Minnesota.
I’oi1oiu—MiLs. J. J. WOODMAN, Michi n.
Fx.onA—Mns. JAS. T. MOORE, Marylou .
LADY ASSTISTANT STEWABD~M1SB CARRIE A.

HALL, Kentucky.

Officers Michigan State Grange.

M.—J. J. WOODMAN. ' - Paw Paw.
O.——THOS. F. MOORE, - - - Adrian.
L.-C. L. WHITNEY, - — Muskagon.
S.-S. A. TOOKER, — - - Lansing,
A. 8.-—A. E. GREEN, - - Farmington.
C.—SALMON STEEL, Bear Lake, Ma.nis’e Co
T--8. F. BROWN, - - Schoolcr-a,ft_
Si?/.i.—J. T. COBB, - - - 64

G. K.—A. N. WOODRUFF. - Watervliet.

Ciuu:s.—Mns. C. L. WHITNEY, Muskegon.
Poxo:u—-Mas. G. W. EWING, _Ross, Kent Co.
l"!.oiu—Mas. J. J. WOODMAN, Paw Paw.
L. A. S.—Mss. A. E. GREEN, Farmington.

Executive committee.

g’. M. HOLLOWAY, Chairman, - Hillsdale.
C. WEBSTER CHILDS, - - - Ypsilanti.
 LUCE. - - Gilead, Branch Co.
TEESTBROOK DIVINE, Belding, Ionia 00.
W OMAS MARS. Berrien Center, Berrien 00.
J M. SATTERLEYE, Birmingham, Oakland Co.
J. ‘ill. A. BURRIIN GTON, Tuscola, Tuscola Co.

- . WOODMAN, J. T. COBB, - Ex. Ofiicio.

State Business Agents,

.1. M. CHIDESTER, - - - '

moms MASON. - - - 353:
General Deputy.

C. L. WHITNEY, - - - Muskegon.

Special igcturers.

gin. Trowbridge,. .Birmingham. Oakland Co.
Ger. F‘. Moore, .... ..Adrian,.....Lenawee Co
8 W. Woodward. .Shelby,.- .... . .Oceana Co
Efllguel La_ugdon, . .Bowen Sta.tion,. . .Kent Co
M' I;H91’r1ngton,. . .Four I‘owns,. .0akland Ce
L- Stevens, ...... . .Perr ,... . Shiawassee Co
‘ 3- B?0wn,....Rawson ' e,..WashtenawCo
Andrew Campbell.- -Ypsilanti, . . “ “
Mu. Salmon Steele,. .Bear Laks,. .Ma.nistee co

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1

GRAXGE SECRETS.

I might tell, yes, neighbor, might whisper them
low—
And you promise never to let any one know ;

For your crud and your conscience forbid you:

you say,
To gather them in in the regular way.

Then draw your chair near me, for the night
wind might hear,

And the dim-lighted well have a listening ear,

Or a spirit intruding, concealed from our view,

Might share in those secrets intended for you.

If mystei-y’s region had no guarded rolind,
What myriads would trespass on her solemn
ground;

To enter her portals, be armored with care,

Be shielded with caution, have courage to spare,
Or be lost in the wake of a. speechless surprise
When those awful secrets before you shall rise,
Those secrets so sacred, so solemn and strange,
That hide in the fanciful mist of the Grange.

You say you can hear them, then silence your
breath,

And while I am speaking be noiseless as death.

The time is propitious to vent a dark theme,

This lone hour of midnight, by the lamp's sickly
gleam;
The windows are curtained, the door is made

fast
No sound but the wail of the snow-driving blast,
And the clock on the mantel, in dismal refrain,
Speaking louder and louder of time on the waue_

You say you are ready, then listen to me,
That the eye of your mind these wonders may

see,
When they, at my bidding, shall rise from the
gloom
And rally before you, like shades from the
b

tom .
In that circle of our‘s, where all bear a part,
Those secrets lay lightly on each faithful heart,
But you, a weak mortal. to our faith unknown,
VVould vauntingly carry the burden alone.

You’re getting impatient; why hurry me so F

When I am prospecting the road you would go?

On. an ocean unknown; would the mariner
dare _

To thoughtlessly venture, and no guiding star?

When my thought-burthened heart unbridles
my tongue,

And from those misty regions the curtains are
flung;

Curiosity then. that famishing guest,

Will cease, in its surfeit, to rankle thy breast.

You're getting uneasy, is that what I hear ?
You want me to tell them and not talk so queer.
My talk may be queer, but it is to prepare

A venturcscme neighbor those secrets to bear,
And my task is now done, my work now must

end
I think 'you are fitted to hear them, my friend,
And I am quite ready to tell them some day.
When my creed and conscience are not in-the
way. J. W. KELLEY,
Berlin, Mich. ~

Qlummuuio1_ti.uu5.

Shall We Wash our Sheep?

J. T. Cobb, Eeq.—_-Dearsir .-

This is a question undecided by the
wool growers of Michigan. The dim-
culty is, how will it aifect the sale of
our wool? That depends upon where
we sell it. If sold at our home market
we can each calculate something about
the result. If shipped to the wool market
(Boston) there it will be sorted, and we
will receive for each grade of wool, as
assorted, the true market value when
sold.

Having received some information
from Fenno dz Manning, of Boston, on
-the preparation of wool for that market,
I herewi hhandyou a copy of a portion
, of their. As. follows; ‘

.01‘ chaff on it)

“ Your valued favor of the 15th inst.
is duly at hand, and we note contents
with care. As to washing your sheep,
we would say that light, clean, well
Washed, loosely tied wool will sell more
readily than any other condition, and
next to this, good, carefully handled,
unwashed wool.

IIaIf washed heavy wool is hard to
sell, so as to satisfy either owner or pur-
chaser. Therefore, either wash thor-
oughly or do not wash at all. Delaine
wool of the fine grades sells better
washed than in any other condition,
but with long combings and also with
the medium and lower grades of de-
laine, the diflerence is rather in favor
of unwashed wool. Michigan wool, if
properly handled, would sell as well as
most Ohio, and it is certainly advisable
to take a little pains with it and reap the
corresponding benefit. But up to this
time it hasseemed almost impossible
to induce Michigan wool growers to
correct the most prominent faults,
which are, ,

First, Carelessness in tagging; every
fleece, whether it is proposed to ship
washed or unwashed, should be carefully
tagged, the tags never put in the bun-
dle, but shipped by themselves, either
Washed or unwashed. Stufling the
fleeces with these tags does the wool a
great injury, as it turns it yellow,
makes it have a bad smell, and is a
fruitful source of heavy claims as soon
as it is discovered by the purchased. It
is practiced very little in Ohio or Penn-
sylvania, as the growers in those States
have learned that it does not pay in the
end. We can not advise you too strong-
ly to discountenance it.

Second, VVe would mention the mat-
ter of doing up and tying the fleeces.
Most Michigan wools are either boxed
or done up hard and square, and tied
with a very unreasonable amount of
large, heavy wool twine. This is amis-
take. The fleeces should be laid on a
clean table (not the barn floor, which
has usually more or less litter, hay seed
and rolled up pelt side
out, rather loosely, neck, belly, sides
and breech ‘of course turned in, and
then tied not.more than twice each
way, using fine short strings; the
object being of course to make the fleece
l00K bulky and light, instead of hard,
heavy, and compressed.

Third, Keep the hay seed and chafi‘
out of the fleeces, which gets in either
from the sheep being allowed to feed at
the stacks, and thus shaking seeds,
chaff, sticks, &c., all over their backs
and necks. making these portions of
the fleece almost valueless to the manu-
facturer, or else from carelessly throw-
ing the fleece, after shearing, on the
uuswept barn floor, or into bins which
have this objectionable matter in them.

If you will take pains one season in
handling your wool, we think the re-
sult would be so satisfactory that you
would always do so. We would also
caution our friends, if they conclude to
wash their wool, not to let the sheep
run too long after washing; they should
be sheared as soon as they are dry,
otherwise the oil begins to start up into
the fleeces again, and much of the labor
of washing has been spent in vain. Vve
would say here that, as a. ‘rule, well
washed wool will’ net the farmer about
12 per cent more than ordinary un-
washed wool. ‘

VVe cautioned you above to have your
wool thoroughly dry before shearing.
VVe repeat this. for if the wool is rolled
up damp, the moisture and the animal
matter yolk, or oil, combine and pro-
duce such intense heat that we have
known fleeces after being in a ile for a
week to be so rotted and disco ored by
it that they were almost worthless,”

From Livingston County Council.

‘W. K. ssxrou,
jpnsiness Agent,

Notes from the State Capitol.

LANSING, March 12,1879.

Through your VISITOR I will give
you a few notes from the Capitol. VVe
are all very proud of our new State
building and expect that as we have
furnished our law makers with such
nice uarters we shall have good laws,
and t at while they are here they will
attend to business. Perhaps they do;
but I could not see the point in the six
calls of the roll, on motions to adjourn,
last Thursday evening, with the same
repetition Friday morning. Acting as
_Grangers, we are trying to be econom-
ical in public as well as in private af-
fa.irs,_ but let us figure up a. little on
running expenses. Thirty-two Sena.-
tors. one hundred representatives,three
clerks to each house, sixteen messenger
boys, postmaster and assistant, janitom
plenty, and clerks of committees too
numerous to mention; all at $3 a day,
Sundays included, (except the messen-
ger boys at $2 per day.) and we have a
total of $500 per day. Then it takes six
tons of coal, with two engineers and
two sets of hands, four at each furnace,
besides nearly twenty scrubbers and
sweepers; then the gas bill is near $30
per night; to this add $40 per day for

rinting, and we have a. total of at least
’600 per day as the expense of our leg-
islature. This is probably as cheap as
any State Legislature, and we should
not complain if we get value received.
This week there has been but little
done, and all business closed Friday
noon until Monday night.

On the 28th of February there was an
adjournment to enable the Nationals
and Democrats to fix u their party
affairs, and on the 6th of ;V arch another
adjournment for the Republicans, and
they felt so good over their nominations
that but little business was done until
the adjournment for the week. There
having been about 1,000 bills presented
both houses but few of them have been
yet considered. True, many of them
are local and many are but crude ideas
that will not be put into shape this ses-
sion. But there is one matter of statis-
tics that might very properly go into
the census bill, that is, the wages of la-
bor. It would add but little to the ex-
pense of taking the census to show the
number of laborers employed and the
wages paid for hire in our different
industries. It is fully as importantto
know what our people are earning as to
know their numbers.

This is a Republican Legislature,
with a good working majority in both
Houses, and they are alone responsible
for the record made, and they must
take‘ the responsibility. If they are
industrious and bring forth good re-
sults, to them be the credit ; but if they
drag the session along until the hot
days of June drive them from the Cap-
itol, with frequent adjournments and
delays, we shall, while toiling through
the Spring rains and the Summer heats,
think this matter up and see if we can

not find better workers for the Legisla-
* .

tive halls next time.

 

llichigan Fruit Catalogue.

. The State Pomological Society has
just issued_ a catalogue of Michigan
fruits, which describes all the promi-
nent tested varieties and grades, their
value for market. for cooking and des-
sert purposes. The volume will be very
valuable for planters in all parts of the
State, for it gives the adaptability of
each sort to the various localities. The
catalogue is issued for the benefit of
fruit growers everywhere, and can be
secured by enclosing: a three cent stamp
to Secretary Chas. W. Garfield, Grand
Rapids, Mich.
'1he June meeting will be held a

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$1,-a5trr’5 glelmrtiucnt.

PAW PAW

J. J. WOODMAN, - - '

The Agricultural Dcpartnient at Wash-
ington, and Siigar Making.

 

It seems that the present Commis-
sioner ofAgriculture, has taken a "new
departure,” and instead of running the
department in the interest of politics,
asit was formerly done, is making it
more agricultural, and more practical.
For this attempt to make the depart-
ment snbserve the interests of agricul-
ture, he has been made the butt of ridi-
cule by the politicians, and the politi-
cal press of the country; and the De-
partment of Agriculture, seems to be
the only object of especial neglect by
Congress. '

In the experiments which have ‘re-
cently been made, there is everything
to struggle against, and contend with,
mi account of the uiggardly and scanty
appropriation for the purposes. ’lhe
implements afforded, are about such as
could be picked up around the back yard
of a foundry, or the catch room of a tin
shop. An old sorghum mill, that has
been nearly worn out, and cast aside, is
made to do service for a press. Second
hand barrels, bought at a_ bargain, are
used for receptacles of the juice,.and the
products. In extracting the juice from
the mass of granulating sugar, an old
letterpress, or something like it, and
operated by hand, is brought into use,
and made to do this work, in a necessa-
rily bungling and imperfect way. As a
consequence of these defective means,
the results must be defective, and it is
really astonishing, that they are as
good and satisfactory as they are. And
what is true in these experiments, is
true in all others.

Why is it that Congress, which appro-
priates millions of dollars for political
purposes, cannot set aside a few linu-
dred at least, to further these great ob-
jects of industry and practical experi-
ment, which benefit, not only the agri-
cultural interests, but the whole people?

The following notes from V\"ashing-
ton will give some idea of the experi-
ments which are being made in manu-
facturing sugar from sacliarine plants,
and the results of the same.

“ The importance of the experiments
in sugar making, now being carried on
at the agricultural department in \Vash-
ingtoii, is considered so great by the
Review, that our correspondent has been
instructed to get reliable data as to the
means and results with aspecial view to
adapting the process to immediate use.
As for the results, it can be said that the
experiments have been entirely suc-
cessful in securing a good quality of su-
gar from corn and sorghum cane. It is
the intention of the commissioner to
embody the precise figures of raw ma-
terial used and product obtained in a.
report soon to be published, but it can
be said in advance, that while the re-
port may indicate what has been done
with the means at hand, it can by no
means give the result that may have
been obtained had the machinery used
been adapted to the work of obtaining
all the sacharine substance in the cane
and duly reducing it. In the matter of
extracting the juice alone. a loss of one-
third of the material was suffered; and
so in passing through other processes,
the elimination of the syrup from the
sugar for instance, a process carried _on
by centrifugal force in the refineries,
has been done by hand in a small press.
The report will arrive at the fact, then,
that sugar of good quality has been
made from corn and sorghum, and in
suflicient quantities to warrant the con-
clusion that the process may be used at
home, on the farm, by individual farm-
ers, or by small manufacturers, with
every expectation of success,_and at a
good profit. Of course some disappoint-
ments will be met with in the trial, but
a little experience and a careful con-
sideration of the different processes
will result in success. \

In its experiments, the Department
has followed the following formula very
nefrlfieat the extracted juice to 180°
Fahrenheit, in copper or tinned iron
vessels. , _ .

2. Add al.'ld”Sl'.ll‘ in one fluid ounce of
cream of lime to each gallon of juice,

and skim.

3. Heat again to boiling point.

4_ Remove vessel, and as soon as sedi-
ment begins to settle, draw off‘ with si-
phon until nine-tenths are removed.

5. Sweep out sediment into a bag, fil-

I jects of the Patrons of Husbandry?

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ter and add the filtrate to the clear
liquor as it passes off.

6. Allow to cool to 150°, and not low-
er, and add sulphurous acid, one fluid
ounce to each gallon. Enough is added
to neutralize the lime, which can be as-
certained by dipping a slip of blue bi-
tumus paper into the mixture.’ It
turns red when enough of the acid is
used.

7. Evaporate rapidly, skimming as
required.

8. \Vlien the thermometer in the
boiling juice shows 235°, withdraw the
sirup. Let it crystalize in a room
about 80° The process of granulation
may be facilitated by adding a few
grains of granulated sugar when the
sirup is at 100° ’l‘lie residue of sirup
after granulation is removed by press-
ure in bags.”

In France and several other countries
in Europe, sugar is extensively. and
profitably manufactured from beets,
grown upon land worth from 400 to
800 dollars per acre. A good crop of
beets, is said to yield from 2.000 to 2,500
pounds of sugar to the acre. There
seems to be no good reason why many
portions of the United States, are not as
well adapted to the successful cultivation
of beets, as any portion of Europe, and
it is to be expected, that the Commis-
sioner will turn his attention to this sub-
ject, as soon as:Congress shall provide
the means to enable him to do so.

lllllflluxumiinivatiuua. I

COUNTY GRANGE.

Inaugural Address of Prof. W. J. Real,
Master of Ingham County Grange
-—Delivered at Its February
Meeting in Mason.

The objects of the Grange have often
been plainly stated in the public press
and in public meetings, and as often
misconstrued or misunderstood by
prejudiced people. Our aims and pur-
poses are becoming better understood.
The whole Declaration of Purposes is
worth a careful reading, and can be seen
by any one. I will give abrief sum-
mary of the objects as adopted by the
National Grange in 1874:

"1. We mutually resolve to labor for
the good of our order, our country and
mankind.

2. \Ve shall endeavor to develop a
better and a higher manhood and wom-
anhood among ourselves; to enhance
the comforts and attractions of our
homes and strengthen our attachments
to our pursuits; to diversify our crops
and crop no more than we can culti-
vate; to systematize our work ; to dis-
countenance the credit system.

3. For our business interests we desire
to bring producers and consumers into
the most direct and friendly relations
possible. Hence we must dispense
with a surplus of middle men, not that
we are unfriendly to them, but we do
not need them. Our efforts are to ben-
efit the producer and the consumer. \Ve
work for cheap transportation ; we are
not commnnistic; we are not enemies
of capital, but we must oppose the tyr-
anny of monopolies.

4. \Ve shall advance the cause of edu-
cation among ourselves and our chil-
dren by all just means within‘our power.
W's especially advocate for our agri-
cultural and industrial colleges that
practical agriculture, domestic science
and all the arts which adorn the home
be taught in their course of study.

5. The Grange is not a political or-
ganization. We seek the greatest good
to the greatest number.

6. This is peculiarly a farmers’ insti-
tution.

7. One of our principles is to relieve
any of our suffering brotherhood, and
another to inculcate a proper apprecia-
tion of the abilities and s here of wom-
an, as is indicated by a mitting her to
membership in our Order.”

In still fewer words, what are the oh-
I
answer,“To improve the intellect, to
improve the social qualities, to improve
our farms, tosave and economize by co-
operation.

The Grange is a perpetual school for
all who join and take part in the pro-
ceedings. The members learn to read
and speak in public, learn to preside
over deliberative bodies, learn to keep
accounts, learn to draw up bills and
resolutions, to make farming more of a
business.

The Grange is a series of socials from

one year’s end to the other’s. Farmers

are isolated and, especially the women
have been cut off’ from frequent socia
gatherings. _
Granges are a series of perpetual busi-
ness organlzations, ready for buying
goods in large quantities, for sellinz
produce in large quantities, for oppos-
ing any monopolies, for contesting any
suits for fraudulent patents; they are a
union for self protection against swin-
dlers of all kinds.
Have any of these objects been ac-
complished by the Grange? We an-
swer, briefly: The working members
have learned to speak in public, learned
more about their business, learned to
placea higher estimate on themselves
and on the pursuit of agriculture.
Mankind and womankind, old and
young, are social beings. Before the
existence of the Grange the women of
the country had tea parties and quilting
parties; the men went to town at least
once a week to loiter on the street corn-
ers, to talk with their brother farmers,
to trade horses, to talk politics and the
vfeather, to buy or sell animals of each
other, to engage in all sorts of gossip
and other unprofitable talk. They as-
sembled in the bar-room, in the black-
smith shop, in the grocery, and some of
them in the saloon. They used to have
logging bees, husking bees, barn rais-
ings, bees to cut wheat, to cut corn, to
dig potatoes; like boys, they must and
would get together.

Who wants to live off by himself?

The Grange is a well organized sub-
stitute for those rude social gatherings,

’ which were often unprofitable in many

respects. The good Patron is not seen
hanging on the street corner by the
half day; nor does he loaf about the
store, or in the bar-room or saloon. He
goes to the Grange instead, and thereby
not only saves time, but gains time.

As a business organization, the mem-
bers of the Grange have done much to-
wards gaining their rights with railroad
companies; they have broken up a
giant (plaster monopoly, they have pre-
vente the renewal of some patents,
prevented the reduction of the tariffon
wool, they have made it possible to ob-
tain sewing machines at one third or
one-fourth the old price; they have
made money by buying together and
selling together. They are learning to
save money by payingas they go. They
are recognized as a power in the land
by manufacturers, by the ofiicers of our
State Capitol at the recent meeting of
the State Grange, by the commissioner
of Agriculture and the President of the
United States. Some object to the se-
crecy of the Grange, but this is not
enough to hurt any one. Some say,
“\Vhy not have all open ‘.’ Adrian
club closed at one session; why not
farmers’ club do the same work 2”’
Why not‘? I echo; but they do not-.

At the Agricultural College we have
for some time unmistakably felt the
goodinfluence of the Grange. This is
manifest in the increased interest of
faflnersz as shown by more frequent
visits and inquiries, and by crowding
our balls with students, and in urging
its liberal support, also in urging the
extension of its usefulness by erecting a
hall for girls and by adding a depart-
ment of veterinary.

Many of our students and alumni are
members of our Order. They are Mas-
ters, Lecturers or active workers. They
often teach a winter school or superin-
tend the schools. If there is a meeting
of any kind in the country, for pomol.
ogy or agriculture, or a fair where our
students are to be found, they are called
on to preside, to act as secretary, to
draw up_ resolutions, to speak a word,
or to write lectures. There is an active
demand for educated men in the coun.
try, and there will be a still greater de-
mand f01' years to come. Besides the
students, several of the College teach.
ers and several of the State Board of
Agriculture are Patrons of Husbandry
This_is as it should be, because the Col:
lege is for the farmer. In many respects
the Grange and the College is enga ed
in the same noble work, that of edugat—
iflg and elevating the farmer. In no
respect is there any confiicting in the
work of the two organizations. The
tS,:”.‘te Gm’-‘g.° has alwfiys recognized

IS. and at its last session took means
*0 bring about a still closer relationship
bfliweell Itself and the Agricultural
college. A committee of three was ap-
Pmflted from the Executive Committee
l£o‘l3_i"eg’]1éY examine the College and its
meeting. report at the next annual

You see the mem .
are working for theilt-’e$o(1)1fegt(l,l,e,,(;fia',l,§:

ofiicers of the C 1] ~
the interests of ?.h:g(§r£1:ege‘;m¢::l Esgpgf

vlously said, we are both engaged in

the same noble work. In union there

is strength.

I have said something about the ob.

jects of the Grange in a general way,

The chief objects of the County Grange

are four in number, viz.: To exercise a,
general oversight of the educational and

the business interests of the Order, and

to aid the Subordinate Granges in their
district. Another of the objects of mg
County Grange is to “have a care for
the welfare of orphans and worthy
needy members of the Order in itsjul-is.
diction.” To aid in best accomplishing
these objects, our County Grange has
decided to try the following plan: We
hold a harvest festival where there shall
be music and public speaking by prom-
inent members of our Order, The fes.
t.ival of the past year was held on the
fair grounds of the County Agricultural
Society and was addressed by Bro. C.
G. Luce and Thomas Moore. Another
part of our plan is to meet as a County
Grange or by our committees with each
of the Subordinate Granges in the
County. Another part of our plan is
to hold sometime during the wintera
Farmers’ Institute, of which this is our
first effort. Prominent on the pro-
gramme are topics pertaining to our
schools, and education and culture for
farmers.

VVe expect to be successful in this un-
dertaking. I need say but little 011 this
subject, as the exercises are mostly pub-
lie and everyone can judge for himself.
This, I believe, is the first institute of
this kind ever held in Mipvhigan by a
County Grange. Every person present.
every good citizen of our State, must
see that all the objects above enumer-
ated are worthy the attention of every
farmer who possesses the true spirit of
enterprise and progress.

Saving Manure in the Stable.

In this city, V. B—~, a milk-man
stables during the winter a herd of cows
—numbering last winter 116. As he en-
larged his barns during the summer, I
presume the number will be greater this
winter. All these cows are kept in one
room. The stable is a basement with a
wooden floor. It is cleaned only assuiis
Mr. V. B.’s convenience. When I vis-
ited it last winter, the accumulation was
not less than one fort deep over the en-
tire floor. There was no stable odor. I
wish to emphasize this point. The cows
were remarkably clean. Not one in ten
had any mark of manure on her quar-
ters or‘about her udder. This condition
of things was brought about by giving
the cows plenty of straw bedding. Just
enough of the solid excretion was put
under the forefeet and covered with
straw to enable the animals to stand
level. The same gentleman keeps his
horses in the same way, that is, he gives
them plenty of bedding and removes
the manure at his own convenience.

In this Way every particle of manure
both liquid and solid is saved under
cover. I have kept a single cow in that
way, and though I cleaned the stable in

the cow was clean, my stable sweet and
milk clean and sweet. My horse-stable
—I keep a single horse—was cleaned
July 1 and Oct. 1 this summer, with-
out in the interval causing any incon-
venience from smell or heat. I have
not cleaned my stables during the cooler
months for some time, and during the
heat of thepast summer I tried very suc-
cessfully the experiment of leaving the
manure in it. I care for my stable with
the help of a ten-year-old grandson, and
never heard’ a word from my fall}! 3’
about the smell of the stable being 1111'
parted to my clothing.

This plan gives the animals asoft.
dry bed—a cushion to stand or rest on-
The, cows being clean, are not trouble“
with inflamed udders, which are cause
by wet and consequent cold. \’l/119"‘
farming I spent much time, money all
labor to save manure and to keep 0193“
stables, clean horses and clean COWS:
and after having spent years in the 911'
deavor, I find this the cheapest and sim-
plest plan to accomplish the end.
commenced reading agricultural P9-Per‘
many yoarsago and from that time 0
this ave read a great deal on the SUP‘
J90?» Of mving manure. I have dug 0”‘
terns and drains; have dug out my
barnyards so that they would
water—and waded through them—-E13”
devised plans for pumping and deliver-;
mg liqllifi manures; have cleaned °°w”_
bags; Dltched filthy straw and_corn
stalks through a 15x15 inch hole 111 we
stables, and I have lived to find it W”
Worse than useless labor. I hope lb”

coming generation will not be as f001l5h

mid-winter and again in the spring, yet,

hflld 2


, fort in this direction.

as I have been, but will show their
sense by following Mr. V. B.’s plan.
s. L. F.
Grand Rapids, Mich.—-Rural J\'ew
Yorker.

North Lake Grange, No. 631.

DEXTER, Feb. 15, 1879.

Dear Bro. Cobb.-

Perhaps you never heard of it, yet it
is a reality. There is 23. Grange by the
name and number given above.
Though young in experience, just com-
mencing its third year of existence, it
has a present membership of forty-one,
was organized with twenty, and has
steadily increased, without the loss of a
member, either by death, removal, ex-
pulsion, or dimit, with a prospect of
yet adding to its numbers.

For the first year, we met around at
the houses of the members, then hired
a house that answers very well, with
our resent number, but if we increase
muc more, we shall have to look for
more commodious rooms.

Although as 21 Grange, we have not
been very demonstrative, we have not
been idle, meeting every two weeks,
and filling the time from three to five
hours, profitably and pleasantly, first
opening in due form, attended with
singing by the young folks, of whom
there is a goodly number in our Grange,
then comes business. After this, some
question is raised, and discussed by
both ladies and gentlemen, followed by
essays and reading of the Grange paper,
which is a monthly. In its columns
have appeared the names of nearly
every member now in the Grange. We
flnd this feature very interesting and
profitable, especially to the young
folks. We are quite apt to have a good
attendance the evening the paper is
read. In order that it should not come
hard on any one, we have changed edi-
tors every paper, the Lecturer appoint-
ing the editor and stafi" of contributors,
(after the reading of the paper), for the
next paper, which gives one month in
which to prepare it. The reading gen-
erally takes up about an hour. I would
not advise other Granges to establish a
paper as they may already have some-
think better; if so, good—if not, try it, as
it gives the young members who have
not the courage to make a public speech
an opportunity of expressing them-
selves. But this is all concerning our
own interests.

Now a few words in regard to outside
work. The most of our members have
joined with other Grangers around
Chelsea, and taken stock in, and built
a ware house, 39x40 feet on the ground,
with 18 feet posts, well situated on a
side track of the M. C. R. B.., this com-
pany giving us the use of the land, as
long as we need it, to store produce for
shipment on their road. It was thought
by some, the building was too large, but
it looks now as if an addition would be
the next thing required, from the way
wheathas been put in the last few days.
Those living at a distance can make it
pay, if in no other way, by taking ad-
vantage of good roads, and leasure time,
this is as good as seven per cent on
money, as compared with drawing in
warm weather, with mud and sand for
roads. A portion of the upper story of
the ware house is finished oifintoa nice
large room, and furnished; making a
good hall to hold Grange meetings for
the good of the Order.

I heard one of the merchants of Chel-
sea say that he would pay so high and
sell so low that the Granges could not
make any saving by ordering in bulk,
or shipping their produce. Very good.
Would they have done so if the house
had not been built. They don’t seem
to {nake any one sorry for building it,
as it will answer for a prompter, if the
Grange lives; if it dies it will make a
good monument. At a meeting held
there a short time ago, we were met by
parties from Ypsilanti, and others, and
after a feast of good things, organized a
Mutual Defence Association, to act aux-
llluujy to the one by that name at
_Yps1lanti, and like it, only that it takes
in all patent right swindles, as well as
the Lee farm gate. Officers were elected,
end We agreed to aid the Mutual De-
fence Association, in their present suit.

As I am afraid I have written too
1Il|19l_l, I will stop until I, see what dis-
mention you ma e of this, my first ef-

P. 5. _Your excellent paper is taken
largely in our Grange, and appreciated
for. its close adherance to Grange in-
terests. Yours in the faith,

WM. H. GLENN,
Lecturer.

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

THE FORMATION OF CHARACTER.

Essay Read at the Union Grange, at
Canonsburg, Feb. 22d, 1879, by
M. P. Berry,

The peculiar qualities of a person
which distinguish him from others is
his character. This is formed in two
ways: First, by nature; second by
habit. -

_ The strongest traits of character are
impressed by nature. The child while
young has nothing whatever to do in
forming character. for its natural
characteristics are born with it, and
are formed very much by maternal
impressions. You all know these in-
fluence the human body, sometimes
making it badly deformed. The same
principle holds ood with the mind
and character. ow important is it
then that these impressions be favora-
ble to the development of a being that
shall be an honor to the parents and a
blessing to the world! If the child be
born with acquisitiveness very large,

firmness and conscientiousness very

small, he will steal in spite of himself
or anyone else; add to these, very large
secretiveness and cautiousness, and he
will make a first class thief, for he will
not only steal, but it will not be very
easy to catch him at it; add large de-
structiveness, and he will murder also

to effect his object. Again, if he has
large conscientiousness and firmness
with acquisitiveness and destructive-
ness only moderately developed, he
will do neither. Large conscientious-
ness and firmness will make him truth-
ful; add large combatitiveness and in-
dividuality, and he will be ready to
stand u for what he thinks ‘is right,

and wil argue the question with any-
one. By the combination of the differ-
ent faculties, all grades of character are
formed. The parents are the principal

ones on whom the responsibility of
forming the child’s character rests.

The father should not shirk his part of
it, and think he has no duty to perform
towards the child, until it is a year,

more or less, of age, when the law, I

believe, unless in particular cases,

judges him more capable of its guardi-
anship than the mother. (This may be

because the law was made by man

alone; I do not know.) The thousand
influences that affect or go to make up
the natural character are not so well

understood as they should be, or will

be in the future when physiology or
the laws of health are more universally

understood. That part of one’s charac-
ter formed by nature, to a. great extent,

follows persons through life. It is, of
course, modified, more or less, by their
surroundings, and here again parents
are the ones responsible for the habits
formed in youth. Follow the advice,

“Do to others (your children) as you

wish they should do to you.” If you
would have them truthful, be so your-

self; if you wish them to scold, and

when they get older, to strike, do just

so to them. If not, beware, “For with

what measure you meet, it shall be

meted to you again.” As the child

grows older, the parent's influence is

still great, but there are many brought
to bear upon him, Every person ex-
erts an influence, in a. greater or less
degree, upon every other person whom
he meets. Dr. Brittain says, “It is
well known that the invisible elements

of contagion are often transported in
one’s clothing. The history of pestilen-
tial diseases furnishes painful evidence
on this point. In like manner, people
carry along with them the moral ema-
nations of every clean and unclean
place they visit. The keen sense of
the observing reader of n_31_nd
and character discovers these qualities

3. long time after. If these emsn_atio_ns
are impure and exert a. corrupting in-
fluence on the character and life of a
person, they are liable to go with him
from year to year, and through all
time.” If he be correct, it proves that
each one of us is more or less responsi-
ble for the character of those about US-
Tlie best way to help others is to do
just as near right as possible ourselves ;
for “ xample is better than precept. ’
One thing that hurts our young I_1leI1
(and old as well) is the prevalent idea.
that it is right for them to go to places
and do things that would be disgrace-
ful for Women to do. It is false. Make
every place pure enough for your broth-
ers, sisters, wives, and daughters, and
you are all right. Again, don’t say of
young men, “They are only sowinfi
their wild oats, and they will settle

down by and by,” forwhen they Settle

down, there is nothing but wild oats
for them and their families to reap from
that sowing. “As ye sow, so shall ye
reap.”

I consider the Grange one of the
greatest blessing ever given to farmers,
in respect to the formation of charac-
ter. It brings together old and young
of both sexes, for mutual instruction
and improvement, and cannot help be-
ing elevating in its tendency. These
remarks apply to one’s real character,
There is also an estimated character.
which comprises those qualities one is
supposed to possess, or in other words,
reputation. I will only say of this,
that if one’s real character be good, the
reputation will scarcely ever fall of
being good also.

The Interest Question.

l’Vorthy Bro. Cobb :

A few more words on the interest
question. In Mr. Spaulding’s article
in the VISITOR, Feb. 15th, I fail to see
the point. I have loaned my wagons
to my neighbors till they are the worse
for the wear, and let them money on
short time without charging them for
either; but this is no argument as to
the right or wrong of government reg-
ulating interest. It is, of course, neces-
sary for government to say what our
currency shall be, but it does not there-
fore follow that it shall say what we
shall do with it, or what we shall ask
for the use of it. Neither do I believe
with Bro. Taylor in the amount of
“toll” being restricted by law any more
than the law should say how much a
miller should ask for his flour, a manu-
facturer for his plow, or a merchant for
his goods. To me this, like the inter-
est question, lias nothing to commend
it but its antiquity. Either can be
avoided. The miller can refuse to grind
for the “toll,” and charge what he
thinks right for grinding in money,
and the man who has money to let
can ask a bonus for making the loan,
and your Michigan banker can sell
bills of exchange on Chicago, charg-
ing legal interest and enough for ex-
change to make it 10 per cent, and
how can we help it‘? If let alone it
will regulate itself, and money, like
everything else, will bring what it is
worth. I have been borrowing money
here in Vermont of asavings bank, pay-
ing until two years ago 8 per cent, then
7 per cent, now six per cent. I never
as ed the bank to charge less ; they re-
duced the interest because money was
worth less. Then again much depends
on the character of the security bide
Government 4 per cent bonds, a large
amount of which are being taken in
Michigan. Would it not be well for
the Grange to put the co-operative prin-
ciple of the Order into operation in the
matter of borrowing money? If they
could not, combined, offer such security
as to get money as low as the Govern-
ment, they could, I think, at least get
it at 7 per cent.

Viamioxrr FARMER.

FARMINGTON, Oakland Co-., 4 }

February 2
Bro. J. T. Cobb .-

In the VISITOR for Feb. 15, under the
heading “The Interest Question Once
More,” “Patron” says: “ We should
petition Congress to pass a law reducing
the rate of interest to six or seven per
cent and make it uniform in every State
in the Union.”

VVou1d “ Patron ” have Congress pro-
hibit our hiring money of Eastern cap-
italists at five per cent? They would
be glad to furnish us with all the money
we need at that rate if they could only
be sure of their interest; the want_ to
be money lenders, not lande propriet-
ors.

“Patron” says: “TheConstitution of
the United States makes it the duty of
Congress to coin money and regulate
the value thereof.” '

In regulating the value of money,
Congress has regulated the value of
farms and their pliioducts till now they
will bring just alt’ price! But What

of that ? If Congress will only regulate,

interest up one per cent in some States
and down two per cent in other States,
and retain the tariff on wool, we will
send back every lawyer of them to gnaw
at our crib.

Fifty-two per cent of farmers in the
nation, but not one per cent of repre-
sentation. In common with women, we
still‘ retain the right of petition. Farm-
ers and women have almost as much to
do with this Government as squaws

3

have with the government of their re-
spective tribes.

(Onc who did not votefor aluwg/er for
Congressman, and who will not petition
251 lawyers for anything.)

The Grange Interests in the (irand
Traverse Region.

SILVER Iiixitn GRANGE, ‘So. 621. 1
Feb. 24, 1879. I
Ediior Grcmgc Visitor.’

Not having seen a word in the VISIT-
OR, for months, from Grand Traverse,
I write to say that we still have a few
live Grangers as well as Granges, in
these northern woods, although a few
organizations have died.

Silver Lake Grange, not old in years,
or lafie in numbers, is a live working
Grange and has had steady growth since
our organization.‘ During the yearjust
closed, we have added twenty-six new
names to our roll-book, and still there
are more to follow. Finding that our
hall was going to be too small for our
future accommodations, we added ten
feet in length last fall, giving us a build-
ing 18x40 feet. During the summer we
purchased and placed in our hall, one of
Beatty’s Organs, which we flnd, adds
much to its attractions and our enjoy-
merit.

Each family has been furnished with
one copy of the VISITOR, and we buy
our plaster of Day & Taylor, notwith-
standing the “ ring ” offer it laid down
ltI1 Traverse City for one dollar less per

on.

Traverse Grange, No. 370, have been
holding meetings at the houses of
dii"l'ei'ent members during the past year,
and in the mean time have gathered to-
gether means to build a hall, which
they intend erecting as soon as spring
opens. This Grange has been using the
pru-iiingknife freely of late, with good
effect. some old members are paying
up back dues, and new applicants begin
to knock at the door for admission.

Alinira Grange, No. 381, is contem-
plating building a hall the coming sum-
mer. Evergreen Grange, No. 380, has
a hall, and. both Granges are in a pros-
perous condition. Take the VISITOR,
buy their plaster of Day & Taylor, and
are happy.

Inland Grange, No. 503, is also ad-
ding new members to their_ list. They
keep a small stock of goods, bought
with money taken from the treasury,
which they sell to members of the Or-
der at special rates, and to others at the
regular retail price, by which means
they are increasing the money in their
treasury quite rapidly, which means a
hall of their own at no very distant
day.

Old Mission Gran ge,No. 4G8,W:n located
on the Peninsular, in the midst of wlrat
is supposed to be the Garden of the
Grand Traverse region, and "numbered
among its members, some of the largest
fruit growers of the State, an a;-Pro-
fessor of the Agricultural college, and
some of the college graduates, as_well as
several others of liberal education and
prominence, I am sorry to say that
this Grange, which should have been
one of the “ shininglights” in our Or-
der, has quietly breathed its last. Like
one of old, I cannot but exclaim, “ too
much learning has _made them mad.”

' The only Grange in the neighboring

county of Antrim, died some time ago,
and one located at Northport. has also
succumed to that _“ grim monster. ”
death. .

This region would be a good field fior
Grange missionary work‘. We are
making an efibrt to to secure the servi-
ces of Bro. Thompson for a. series of lec-
tures. We feel confident if we succeed,
that many standing outside the gates,
“almost pursuaded,” will be gathered
in and our membershipand usefulness
doubled within one ,year, and perhaps
new Granges added to our number. We
have the material, but lack in good lec-
turers. Fraternally,

S. A. GARDNER. Sec; of 624.

It may be that our W. Sec.,O. F. Mil-
lei‘, will not write you in time for the
next VISl'1‘0R, of the last meeting of
Ingham County, Pomona Grange, held
March 7th at Delhi. We had a. full and
interesting open meeting in the after-
noon, with initations in the evening.
VVith considerable enthusiasm, the Co.
Grange passed two resolutions, whids I
cannot now_ give the exact words of.
The first was a. pledge of $25 to defend
the gate suits we hear about: the sec-
ond was urging each of our thirteen
subordinate Granges to take a similar
course at once. Will other counties do
likewise? W. J. BEAL.


  

 

 

 

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THE G-RANGE VISITOR.

SCHOOLCRAFT. MAR. 15, 1879.

.5a'rztary’s Qcpartment.

- SCHOOLCRAFT.

J. T. COBB, - - -

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

COURTING-THE LEGAL KIND.

VVe do not wish our friends to sup-
pose that we have done referring to
the wretched work resulting from
years of legislation, by lawyers, for
lawyers, (but not at their expense),
which taken in connection with the
rules and usages of courts of justice
of every grade have made it impossi-
ble to use our judicial system for the
purpose for which it was originally
designed. _

So long as we have charge of this
paper, and after that so long as we
are able to write an article deemed
worthy of publication by any inde-
pendent journal within reach, we will
not hesitate to show up, as occasion
presents, the humbug character of
our courts of justice.

There is much complaint about the
salaries of our Circuit J udges,and two
attempts have been made to amend

— the Constitution in behalf of the
bench. The result in both cases
seem to indicate that the people feel
that they are now paying for more

. than they get in return, and we ap-
prehend that it is a waste of time for
the legislature to consider the ques-
tion of submitting to the people an
amendment to the Constitution au-
thorizing an increase of salary of Cir-
cuit Judges.

The defects of the system, or the
iuefliciency of those who make up
the several parts of the judicial
machinery of our courts, or all to-
gether, must be held responsible for
this unwillingness on the part of the
people to increase the salaries of Cir-
cuit. Judges. It is not true as we
have heard it charged by lawyers
that the people are mean and niggard-
ly in this matter, and the proof
lies in the fact that while the people
are complaining of high taxes and
public burdens, an examination of the
tax roll will show that these taxes
are mainly self-imposed-—the result
of a popular vote.

We have voted to build expensive
public buildings, have voted aid to
railroads, and in many ways have en-
cumbered our future resources, have,
in short, been more liberal than pru-
dent all these years that cover these
attempts to increase the salary of Cir-
cuit Judges.

These votes upon this question
have been the people’s verdict, “ want
of confidence.” And the explanation
is right here. When public notice is
given some weeks in advance that a
term of court will commence on a
certain day, with a calender of cases
that has been on the increase perhaps
for years. some of them nearly old
enough to vote; and a jury of twenty-

four men “ good and true,” has been
summoned by the Sheriff from all
parts‘ of the county and appear

on the day designated, and the ma-

chinery of justice. is apparently all
nicely oiled and in working order,

His Honor on the bench. the clerk In

his place, ready to earn _his money,

‘the Sheriff and his dePl1l71°3 ‘"1 mud

. ,. s that figure up
. . 'I°hZi3'a‘§§'§’f-reams as had
’- ‘heed notified that -their cases would
" probably be about the fir-st called; 30'

gether with their witnesses, “'9 Wm‘

the pleasure of the court, a score
or so of educated gentlemen, learned
in the law, and absolutely indispensi-
ble to elucidate it and make it fit
the case of the fellow whose retainer
has been pocketed, are within the
bar, and it just looks with all this
array of books and brains as though
these cases of crookedness were going
to get straightened right off, and
men sent home about their business.
But no one is so verdant now as to
have any faith in these appearances.

Probably the time was when such
preparations meant business, but now
.it means bread and butter for lawyers.
The Sheriff makes proclamation that
the court is now in session, and a
case is called. New commences the
real business of the bar for the term.
On one pretext or another cases are
put off for a day or two, or for the
term, with little or no regard‘ to the
interests of litigants themselves. Ob-
jections are interposed of the most
trivial character, and argued for
hours when the court and bar all
know that they are without a particle
of weight or value. Anything is
done or left undone that will con-
sume time and make costs.

Witnesses are sworn to “tell the
truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth,” and every attempt to
do soisbafiled, if the ingenuity of
the bar is equal to the effort. Men
of respectability, integrity, and influ-
ence are badgered and browbeaten
when on the witness stand, by any
upstart of a lawyer, with a freedom
and impertinence of manner known
nowhere else in the bounds of our
civilization.

The fact that a far greater propor-
tion of cases are appealed from the
circuit to the supreme court than
there were thirty years ago, and the
decisions if the circuit court are
not then sustained more than half
of the time, is opening the eyes of
the people to the unreliability as
well as the expensiveness of going to
law, and the persistency with which
lawyers hang to a case when they
once get hold of it, and the client is
able to pay fees, is perhaps doing
more to correct the system than any-
thing else. Lawyers themselves are
helping to bring about reforms by ig-
noring the commonest demands of
those rules which govern business
men in business affairs. And they
are already beginning to feel the ef-
fect of this vicious system. \Vhile
there is perhaps as much time spent
as ever, fewer cases get on the
calender than we had a dozen years
ago. With all their shrewdncss, law-
yers will never come to understand
that the course they are pursuing is
gradually “killing the goose that
lays the golden egg.”

There has as yet been no innova-
tion, no improvement to give confi-
dence to the people, nor will there be
until the lawyers by the course which
they have adopted shall have taught
the community to shun lawyers and

litigation as they would inevitable
ruin. That point seems much nearer
than ten years ago, and we trust
will be hastened if a plain statement
of facts is made from time to time.
so that we may see how this judicial
machine looks from a business stand-
point.

The court and bar of Kalamazoo
county is for aught we know neith-
er better or worse than afllict other
counties in the State. And now let
us see as a business institution what
it has to commend itself to the sup-
port and confidence of the people
who pay the taxes in this county.

A regular term commenced on
Tuesday, the 25th of ‘ Feb. There
were 69 cases on the calendar, and the‘
Judge was ready and anxious to be

earning his “meager salary.” The in-

THE’ GRANGE. "VISITOR.

evitable 24 “good and true men" were
ready, in equal sections, to serve the
county. Of these cases, six were
criminal, issues of fact 25, or 31 cases
for court and jury. VVith a bar of
some 40 lawyers, after a diligent
search of one day, it was found that
there was not a case ready for trial.
All alike had learned “how not to do
it,” and the jury having earned mile-
age and per diem, were discharged,
and the Court adjourned until the
following Monday.

This apparently trifling matter
will cost the county some money, and
parties who had cases in Court
perhaps as much more. Of itself
it is not vastly important and has
added nothing to the uncertainty
attending this judicial business, as
expensiveness and uncertainty were
as well known to be its chief charac-
teristics before the term commenced
as now.

We have alluded to the manner in
which the bar came into Court the
first week—-let us say a word about
its subsequent proceedings. On the
second week there was a, murder case
disposed of, with creditable celerity ;
then followed a few small cases, three
or four, and the Court entered upon
the trial of a case which occupied
nearly ten days (it had been tried be-
fore in this Circuit). All this time
the twelve idle jurymen were kept
here, at the expense of the taxpayer.
This case was at last disposed of, one
or two other cases were tried, and the
Court was over with, so far as a jury
was needed——chancery cases alone re-
maining. The amount of real business
done need not, it seems to us, have
occupied over ten days. It is perti-
nent to inquire, what has become of
the other cases? Will they reappear
at the next term, and the next term?
The fact may be not worth mention-
ing that several parties have been in
jail several months waiting trial, some
of them only nolle pi-osed. at the close
of this term.

It seems pertinent to enquire
whether the bar runs the Court to
suit their convenience, or to come
closer to the real question, whether
the people who sustain this depart-
ment of the machinery of Government
have any ri_(/hts in the premises.

In good times, when paying taxes
was not taking the bread from the
family of a poor man, and when the
great “middle class” found no hardship
in these annual demands upon them,
less attention was given to “ where
the money goes.” But now, when
nearly every one finds it extremely
difficult to make their income cover
their necessary wants, people have
become more anxious to know how
their money is disposed of. They
want to know what they are getting
in return for it.

That their interests are wantonly
and shamefully disregarded by those
to whom they are committed is a fact
so notorious and indefensible that we
can but think that continued and per-
sistent reference to the subject will
provoke discussion and fix such well
earned odium upon this expensive
swindle, that these men who have
loaded the judicial machine with such
expensive abuses will be compelled to
recognize the necessity of applying to
the administration of V justice some; of
those business principles which give
success to busmess men.

It is too much to expect a usage so
deeply’ rooted to be corrected in a‘
short time, but we believe the bill now
before the Legislature restricting ap-
peal cases to judgements of over $100,

- if enacted, will not only cut down the

business of the Circuit Court, but is
clearly in the interests of litigants

themselves, for a very large;propor-

tion of cases originally involving
small sums, under the dilatory man.

agement which has obtained through-
out the entire judicial department of
the government, if allowed to get be.
yond the justice Court, are ruinous
to the parties themselves, and impose
an onerous burden on the people who
have no sort of interest in the matter,
and should by legislation be protect-
ed from the had blood of bad neigh-
bors and the rapacity of unprincipled
lawyers.

The people are giving this matter
more attention than ever before, as
indicated by the many petitions to
the Legislature upon this subject.
That the interests of the people will
be subserved by the passage of the
Bill now before the House is of little
doubt, and we trust our friends see
the need of this reform, and will not
allow this matter that would save
thousands of dollars to the people of
the State annually, to be lost sight of.
There are a number of members pledg-
ed to the support of this measure, and
we shall expect good, honest work
for it.

THE INTEREST Q.UES'l‘l()l\'.

“Vermont Farmer" comes again to
the defence of what if reduced to a
proposition would be about this.-
The government should not in any
way circumscribe or restrict the peo-
ple in their business relations with
each other. VVe are aware that it
is a point so fine that it probably will
never be exactly determined just
where governmental interference with
the untrammelled freedom of the
citizen should stop.

But the very significance of the
word itself, implies a surrender to
some extent of the right of the gov-
erned, to act, or do, or say, what-
ever the unrestrained impulse of the
subject might demand. Some things
are so obvious that it seems a waste
of time to stop and prove them, and
we assume that this theory of non-
interference is so exactly contrary to
all history, and to all, our observation
that it it is unsound.

I apprehend that “ Vermont Farm-
er” is entirely mistaken in saying that
“The miller can refuse to grind for
toll and charge what he thinks right
for grinding, in money."

A case akin to this has been tested
in this State A farmer in this coun-
ty who, from some cause or another,
was not on good terms with a miller
whose custom mill was within a mile
of his farm, took a grist to mill and
the miller refused to receive and
grind it. The farmer sued for dam
age, and the case was carried through
the several courts until it was decid-
ed by the highest tribunal in the
State, that a miller doing custom
work had no legal right to discrimin-
ate against any man, but must grind
for all customers in the order the
work was offered, up to the capacity
of his mill.

And while we are well aware that
the money lender, when he has be-
come a sharper, has been taking ad-
vantage of men's necessities, and has
resorted to all sorts of dodges to
evade the law fixing ten per cent. as
the maximum rate of the State; yet
the miller who untertakes to say-
when grain is cheap and the toll no-
satisfactory, that he will make his
own price in cash for grinding grist-*1
brought to his mill, will find but little
support at the bar of public opinion;
and stand but a poor show in Court-

let can ask a bonus for making 8
loan.” So he can, and get it, but if
he could be headed off, and not 89‘
more than seven per cent. would not
the community as a whole be better
off for it’? Are not lenders few 00111’
pared with borrowers, and is not @119

interest of the many, superior to ‘I10
interest of the few ‘.7

 

“And the man who has money to .


' demit by application to Secretary L

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‘ ‘ion

our “farmer” thinks that “this mat-
ter of interest if let alone will regu-
late itself like everything else, and
money will bring what it is worth.”
if his theory is correct we are ready
to assign him a place with those ad-
1311086 thinkers who have lived be-
fore their time. All great reforms
are introduced by innovators whose
ideas make but small headway at first
with the mass of the people, and it
may in time prove to be true, that if
we let every bod)’ 50 lu“ 35°11” 35
they have a mind to,that t_he commun-
ity will be the better for It-
‘ We know, that as the matter now
stands, laws are very meddlesome,
that we are regulated and restrained
in every conceivable direction, and
with 130 members at Lansing, find 8}
many more at the difl‘erent State capi-
lols all over the conntfys _Wh° ‘"11
mm out at the close oi their several
sessions huge volumes of laws in ad-
dition to those now in force, the
prospect is exceedingly poor pf enlarg-
ing the area of individual ‘liberty so
that everything will have a i8.-ll‘ chance
“' to regulate itself."

   

TH)-: Ilusbandrzmn, of Elmira, N.
Y.. conceived the idea of presenting
to its numbers readers portraits of
those who, in one way or another,
had become identified with the agri-
cultural interest of the country.

It commenced the series Jan. list,
with a portrait of Geo. W. Hotihian,
President of the Elmira Farmers’
Club, which has become famous all
over the county.

The reports of the Club are so
identified with, and go to make up so
much of the paper that the suitable-
ness of first presenting its President
was quite apparent to the readers of
the Jlusbandman.

-Its next issue, Jan. 8th, gave us
an excellent portrait of Bro. Alonzo
Sessions,Lieut. Governor of Michigan.
The discussions of the club and the

----Glt-Ali‘.-GE .Y.I..S.I'_J29;R-

§m:tur2r'a Qnmrtmmt.

C. L. VVHITNEY, - — - MUSKEGON.

rinan NOTES.

On Thursday the 12th ult. the Feb-
ruary meeting of the \Vestern Pomona
Grange, No.. 19, met at Hudsonville,
Ottawa County, ‘and, of course, duty.
brought us there. Worthy Master N a-
than \Vhitney entered promptly upon
the discharge of his duties in a manner
that impressed us all that he meant
business, and that success would crown
the efforts of our District Grange for
the year to come. There was a large at-
tendance of members, all of whom took
great interest in the meeting. Twenty
brothers and sisters made application
and received the instructions of the De-
gree of Pomona. The question of mu-
tual aid and benefit associations was
discussed at length and the following
resolution was unanimously adopted :

WHEREAS, Life insurance, as now in
practice, is too ex ensive and unsafe to
meet the wants 0 the farmer and Pa-
tron; therefore,

Resolved, That the Patrons of Michi-
gan should form a Mutual Aid and
Benefit Association at an early period,
upon the plan of the New York and
New Hampshire Associations.

The following que-.~ntion was also large-
ly discussed : “Wlmi. amount of atten-
tion, time and expense should be given
to the decoration of Grange halls, and
what results may be derived there-
from?” All agreed in the effect of a
neat and well decorated hall and home.
The subject is one worthy of the atten-
tion of every Patron.

On Friday evening thirteen of us
went from Hudsoriville to Jamestown,
where we met a few of the many Pa-
trons? of that once flourishing Grange
No. 105, and, after a brief talk, we left
with an a pointmeut for March 6th.

At the udsonville meeting we were
pleased to meet Bros. Porter, Norton
and Hamilton, of Kent County Grange,
and learned from Bro. Porter that that
Grange meets March 5th at Sparta.

Monday morning the 17th ult. found
us en route for Springport, Jackson Co.
At the appointed time, Bro. Fitzgerald
met us at the train and invited us to the
hospitalities of his home, which we en-
‘o ed. A fair audience met in the even-

advocacy by the Husba-ndman of the J Y

various interests of farmers attracted
the attention of Brother Sessions, and
he became some years ago a voluntary
contributor to the columns of the
paper. The editors of that journal
were in time attracted by the sound
practical character of his communica-
tions and have expressed their appre-
elation by a brief and truthful refer-
ence to the prominent characteristics
of the man.

By the courtesy of the editors of
the Ewsbandman we are offered the
ulectrotype plate of Gov. Sessions,
and, shall take pleasure in intro-
ducing to our readers in our next
ifishe this representative farmer of
Michigan.

_ We have also been offered the use
of other plates and while we do not

‘ expect to continue in the picture busi-

ness for any great length of time, we
are confident that our friends Will be
well pleased with this new feature of
the V Isiros.

Ssvaim. communications already in
type, go over for want of room.

0

_ Orisco, March 8th, 1879.
lid. Grange Visitor .-

At the meeting oi‘ Oti.-r-.o Grange
heldthis day, the Grange responded to
the invitation of the State Grange, to
make common cause and defend their
Tlzhts against the Lee and Teal patent
Rate swindlers, to the amount of $20.

J. C. NOBLE, Sec.

UNAFFLIATED Patrons may get a

obb.
5911!! a postal card and learn all partic-
“his. First, .however, try to revive
the Grange to which you belonged-if
Gormant.

'  of dormant Granges can

 with the movements of the
57"I‘klnx and reading the V181“

ingin the hall of Grange No. 45 and
gave good attention to an hour's ad-
dress and the exempliflcation of un-
written work which followed,

Tuesday evening the 18th we met
with the State Pomological lsiocietry in
the new Capitol at Lansing. A goodly
attendance and a fine show of winter
apples were apparent to all who could
climb to the high position assigned us
——the fourth story. The question of the
"decoration of the grounds of County
school houses by the planting of trees,
shrubs and flowers” was discussed and
a resolution adopted recommending the
same to the attention of the people of
the State. What class of people should
be more inter_ei-stcd in this than the
members of our Order? Why not dis-
cuss this question in both County and
Subordinate Granges ? h

‘The winter meeting of the State Po-
mological Society closed with a grand
dis layof fruits and with appropriate

-ad" resses and resolutions at the evening

session, held in the Representative Hall
on Thursday evening. For the full re-
port of thisineeting we refer all to the
annual report of the Secretary for l879.
Eehe nleaxt ppeeting, in June next, is to
1; us e on.

The Masong Institute, noticed in our
last, next claimed our attention, and
thither we went on Friday morning,
Feb. 21st. Bro. Cllilds not being ab e
to be resent, the labor of a public in-
stallation of the oflicers of Ingham Uo.
Grange fell upon us, in doing which
we had the assistance of excellent and
appropriate music, underlpthe direction
of Bro. Sturges, of Cedar Grunge.

This Institute was as well attended as
any we have ever seen. The Coltrt
H ' e as full at all sessions, and t e
piggiaihime fully carried out. The in-
augurgl Bfiddtléassi of Bl'0.d W. J. _B(€alal,
Worthy as r, s a goo paper _iii 18
interest of our Order. )’Ve solicited a
copy and it appears in this num-
ber of Tim VISITOR. Bro. Thomas
R. Moore was also present and helped,
as he said, “To keep the meeting red
hot to its close, and not a moment was
waggedjl Friday evening the County
9'°"“°““°““.‘l"l.°..l".i.‘ °‘

. hlchawas ove w
bfgtliers and sisters from all parts of the

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County who had come to enjoy the in-

tellectual and social feast provided. Bro.

C. L. In rsoll was appointed toast

master, an well he performed his duty.

The music was excellent and well put

in by the chair. The first toast was;

“O'iir Rural Homes; God Bless ’l‘hem;”

we.tried to respond, but we think the
choir done better when it sung, “Home

Sweet Home.” Next came, “ Our Ag-
ricultural Press; May it have Greater
Prosperity,” response by Bro. King.
“The Farmers’ sons and Daughters,
the Life of Our Country,” was respond-
ed to by VVorthy Chaplain Jones VViley.
“All Honor to the Husbandman” was
the sentiment to which VVorthy Secre-
tary 0. F. Miller gave response. “ The
Vifeaker Sex, the Source of our Pleasure
and Strength,” was the theme assigned
to Bro. and \V. M. Beal, and he did as
well as he dared, “ being afraid of
women.” The Vi-’orthy Lecturer, L.
H. Innis, ably responded to “ The
Grange, an Educator and Enlighten-
er.” Bro. Moore, W‘. O. of the State
Grange, filled well the place assigned
him, in response to “May ‘Vs Ever
Study Nature, the Foundation of All
True Art.” Next came, “ The Farmer,
One of Nature’s Noblenien,” and the
response was by VVorthy Overseer S. E.
Jeflries; it was followed by “The Agri-
cultural College, thc Farmers’ School,"
and this was responded to by Bro. Rowe
—while Bro. Ingersoll ably answered
the call for “The Educated Farmer, the
Peer of Any Man.” To close, came the
toast, “Music, Heavenly Maid, Born
ere the Morning Stars Sung Together,
and All the Sons of God Shouted for
Joy, May the Grange Successfully VVoo
Her;" responded to by the chair. A
brief time was given to business and the
exem lification of the unwritten work,
and tie only secret session closed (all
the other sessions were public, and all
productive of much good). VVe heard
one outsider say that “ the meeting was
worth hundreds of dollars to the farm-
ers of the County.” The next meeting
is to be at Delphi, March 7th.

Not satisfied with this, in company
with Bro. Moon, we spent Saturday
evening at Capital Grange, No. 540, in
North Lansing. A full hall, neatly dec-
orated, good music, and a fine pro-
gramme well executed, made the even-
ing pass very pleasantly and quickly.
I commend the programme. of this
Grange, as published in THE Vi.-srron,
to other Granges, and say : "(lo and do
thou likewise.”

Of course we called upon the Legisla-
ture, and we are prouder than before
(if it is possible) of our Brothers on duty
there, both as members and attendant
ofiicers. Our \Vorthy Bro. Lieut.-Gov.
Sessions presides with able dignity ‘over
the Senate, never forgetting anything
in his line of duty, even the ventila-
tion of the chamber. Bro. Childs is
over worked in looking after the farm-
ers’ interests there, and he fears to
leave his seal: for a moment lest. our in-
terests suffer. Bro. Hine, of Kent, ably
does his part, as do all our brothers in
both Houses. Let us help them by
sending in more and more petitions, to
show the whole holly what we want
and menu to ask for and keep asking
for until we get it.

\Vhile at Lansing I saw VVesley Em-
ery, a. hook-seller there, and he will
supply Granges with books for their li-
braries at 30 per cent of!‘ from the retail
prices.

On the 5th of March, we visited, in
company with eight other members of
Pomona Grange, No. 19, Kent County
Grange, in its session at Sparta. There
was a good turn out, and 14 new mem-
bers were added to their list by taking
the lessons of the degree of Pomona.
\Ve were much pleuseil by the report of
the executive committee. on business
arrangements in Grand Rapids. and
wish that other counties were as fortu-
nate. and we trust that all in Kent
County will stand by these arrange-
ments. Help those who help us. Their
next meeting is at South Lowell Grange
Hall, early in May.

()n the ‘evening oi’ the 6th, we gave a
public lecture at Jziinestown_ Ottawa
County, with fair success, and shall, in
a mouth or six weeks, have that dor-
mant Grange in running order again.
W'e heartily thank Bro. Hudson for his
many favors in the way of transporta-
tion and entertainment at his house.

Friday evening, the 7th inst. found
us enroute with Bro. Harrington, of,
Georgetown Grange, (which always
turns out by the load), to Allendale
Grange hall. VVe found Bro. Rose of
this Grange, hard at work, puttin
every thing torlghts lu‘th_ei_r new 
new paid for, in which we found a sup-.

5

ply of new tables, chairs, and lamps
which with the trimming: and decora-
tion of the walls with pictures, ever-
greens, &c., gave the hall a home-like
appearance, ever welcome to strangers.
The hall was well filled by Patrons and
their friends, who gave marked atten-
tion to the installation service and the
address that accompanied it. An ex-
cellent oyster supper followed, to the
satisfaction of the inner man, in the
discussion of which, all took an earnest
part. This Grange is in a prosperous
condition. Four members took the de-
grees, and two applications were re-
ceived at the oyster supper. Additional
subscriptions to the VISITOR were taken,
and “onward” is their motto.

Benefits of Grange Co-operation.

Actual results are always of more
weight than theoretical or speculative
returns, so we give a few facts showing
the benefits of co-operation, drawn
from a paper read by Bro. G. M. Towar
at Capitol Grange, No. 540, on‘ the
evening of our visit there, Feb. 2241.

Plaster, at the time of the organiza-
tion of this Grange, was $5 per ton in
Lansing. The Grange ordered 20 tons
in,direct froni“Graiid Rapids, costing
them in Lansing $5 per ton, saving 
per ton or a total of $00, more, we ven-
ture to say, than all the fees and dues

aid u to that time by all the mem-

ers. ct not one farmer in ten who
does now, belonged to the Order. then ;
but had all belonged and joined in the
co-operative eflbrt, nearly $1,000 might
have been saved t-lien.

The books of the Lansing Co-opera»
tive Store show Bro. Towar to have
traded to the amount of $1,103 84 since
May 4th, 1877, or 17 months’ time. and
a discount of from 5 er cent to 75 per
cent, or an average 0 2.5 per cent from
the usual Lansing rates—‘a total savln
of $275, to have earned which woul
have required a whole yo.-ar’s labor, at

year at 7 per cent. Burl‘-l_v, a co-opers-
tive store well managed is a good in-
vestment.

Bro. Tower also saved $300 in the
purchase of a iiaiio; and by a trip to
Chic olast fal of liiiiiself, wife, son,
and aughter, saved enough in pur-
chasing clothing through Grange
agenc 7, to pay their entire expenses
and ad ‘'63, 20 cents left~—-yet how
many don't think the Grange pays! He
claims to have saved  in shipping
his wool last year. A wagon was
bought through the Grange store for
$62 that other dealers charged 1585 for.
Tea was sold for 600. that other stores
charged 85c. for. These are a few or
the facts set forth by Bro. Towaix

Now what one man or community
can do, another man or community can
do under similar circumstances. The
-capital stock of the Lansing Co-opera-
tive Store is less than .ia'l,000, and pays
all expenses aud 8 per cent on the
stock, and yet sells at the above advan-
tage to Patrons. Of course it is well
managed by Bro. Goodnow, of North
Lansing, Mich., but he is also warmly
seconded ;by itrue brothers and sisters‘
who try to make their store a success.
Of course they have had some opposi-
tion, and expect to have. One bi-other
opposed buying plaster at a saving of
$3 per ton, and made beautiful speeches
about building up the town, markets,
etc, and used about 40pounds of plaster
yearly. The Agent» ought to give him
his plaster. ‘

Now doubting, faithlcss, dormant,
or sleeping brother, you say you don’:-
iieed a piano, wagon,‘ etc., but you use
lamp wicks at 3 cents each, that can be
had for 4 cents per dozen by taking a
gross, {and 12 families in an ' Grange
could do it. VVhat is true 0 wicks is
true of burners, and so with a thousand
other little things used in every farm-
er’s family. A saving can thus be
made not only of moxie ', but of labor
in travel of yourself an team, and the
time lost. Haven't 8- $1,000? then try
$100 or $50 in ‘our own Grunge-no
matter how sma 1, and keep account o
everything, to see the saving. Buy at
wholesale of our Business Agents in
Detroit. Chicago, Milwaukee, or Cleve-
land—-try it.

Before you can succeed, you must
have knowledge of what you undertake,
and the Grange-—its meetings, the Via.
ITOR. the County Grange are the
means you can freely use, and the

more_ you use them, the better they
will be—t-ry them and see.

READERS! if you don't _want- this
number after you have re__ad_i_t_plee.se
hand lttoisome fallen ,Patt°.!'.1“9l'L same

earnist7£a‘rrner who wiil‘,lu;5 :91;-can it.

least-, or nearly $4,000 at interest for a"


   

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,Stop and think.

I ‘recognizin her
‘ "calling to i . comic is hei-
‘ ‘ nous and intuitions. The Grange doors

 

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

What Has the Grange Done?

This is a question often carelessly
asked by those who have either not
had opportunity to learn of its works;
or purposely by those who would be-
little the Order of Patrons because the
members are “nobody but farmers.”

All true, earnest Patrons know what

— the Order has done, The hordes of

once middle men are now trying to
earn an honest living by producing
something to benefit the world, and
they know what the Order has done.
Many farmers yet outside the Gate can
honestly testify of the change made for
the better by the Grange. Politicians
can swear the Grange has never done
them any service, but has rather, by
the inculcation of thought and inde-
pendent action, often defeated their
schemes and wire-pulling.

Public opinion has heard the voice of
our Order, and yielded to its influence.
Congress knows there is a mighty pow-
er within our well-guarded gates, and
bears and answers our memorials.

The President of this nation of agri-
culturists has felt the Patrons’ in u-
ence, and would consult them regard-
ing their Department at Washington.
The Governor of the Peninsular Em-
pire of Agriculture and Horticulture
remembers our desires in his annual
message. The most beautiful State‘
Capitol in the land is dedicated by our
State Grange, and the -Legislature
daily hears the voice of the Order
under the head of Petitions.

Peddlers, patent right men, lawyers,
grain theives, and other wicked men
know what the Grange is doing and
shun us.

Every well informed Patron knows
what the Order has done, and those
who attend its meetings regularly and
read the VISITOR, keep posted as to
what we are doing now. They feel
proud of the past, happy in the present,
and confident of the future.

From what has been done, they often
think what might have been done had
all who have become Husbandmen or
Matrons worked with all their ability
and in unity, to secure the highest
attainable objects of the Fraternity.
\Vhat might have been done had all
who till the soil become workers with-
in the Gates! So in the future what
might be done if all farmers would
join our mystic circle, and the then
united Fraternity of the most ancient
and noble of callings remember the
watchwords, Onward Forever!

Our homes, youth, and Women can
tell volumes for the labors of the Order
in thousands of homes in this State,
and show imprints of the noble pre
cepts and worthy practices inculcated
by the Grange—nor is the harvest yet
fully ripe. Let years and abler pens
tell of this! The young men and
women of our Order—the boys and
girls when the Grange first began-
know what it has done, and what it is
doing now. Do all appreciate the ad-
vantages they enjoy, which but for
this Order, they would not now have 2’
Let fathers, and
mothers, and friends of our youth make
the Grange still better for the sake of
the children of to-day, who are to be
the citizens of to morrow. Bring in
the boys and girls as soon as old
enough, an-dthrow around them those
hallowed influences which our Frater
uity can give: Help them to find or
make it a school of instruction where
practice goes hand in hand with the-
ory, and pleasant social recreation and

» enjoyment make the place attractive.

0, reader! seek and hold fast to the
Grange for the sake of your children.
Make it attractive in every way, and
pure and elevating in character. Do
your Duty.’

What has the Grange done for
women? Sisters, need I speak for you
who, thanks to our noble Order, have

' -' had a chance to speak for yourselves‘?

You earnest workers need not my testi-
mony; but to doubting, faithless sis-
ter, 1 wish to say a word—yes, and to
the man who doubts women’s capabili-
ties and influences. What has the Or-
der done for women? It is the first
organization that has formally, in deed
as well as in word, given to women her
true position, for all the past has exclu
ded and ignored her. As says our
beautiful dedication service, “ This
Order, the last and grandest outgrowth
of the necessities of mankind, admits
her to a full and equal participation in
its mysteries, its instructions, and its
benefits. To it, belongs the honor of
ual ri%hts, and of
net, percep-

swing inward as readily at the gentle
touch of woman as at the ruder knock
of man. She is conducted, not to a. si-
lent and humble seats in its congrega-
tions, but is given an equal voice in its
councils, and shares with her brother,
its most exalted honors. This noble
Order bears her up upon its strong
arm, and holds above her_ its shield of
protection. VVe recognize and will
defend her title to this position], and
ask of her in turn to strengthen us by
her sympathy, and encourage us by the
elevating and refining influence of her
presence.” _

Nobly has she done her work in the
Gi'ange—instant in season and out of
season. She has reciprocated the efforts
of the Order in her behalf. Many an
active Grange would have been dor-
mant to-day, but for the hope and per-
severance of the women who belong to
it. They have attended meetings, and
devised ways and means to sustain and
build up their Grange. Many Granges
have been formed by the efforts of
women. and many a dormant Grange
revived and restored to position by the
energy of its female members.

In short, I don’t believe it possible
f‘or a Grange to go down or lag in its
work if the women within its gates
take hold as they should, and I think
any dormant Grange in the State may
be reinstated if the women who were
members take hold and try to do it.

Sisters ! will you stand by the Order
which has done so much f'or your sex,
and can do so much more for you and
your families. I know well enough you
will.

Doubting sisters, how is it with you‘?
Shall the Grange falter and fail for
want of efforts on your part; when a
word, a little time and eiflrtwill do so
much to advance it and strengthen all
within its influence ? Do you want a
safe place for your sons and daughters
to go for instruction, amusement, and
preparation for the higher duties oflife '?
Then build up the Grange and aid it in
its great work, as you owe it so much.

Illumination Illustrated.
We quote from the Lansing Repub-
lican, of the 4th inst.

“ At representative hall, last VVednes-
day night, a lecture was delivered by
Prof. J. W. Langley, of the university,
on illuminating oils. He had a black-
board, with diagrams and statistics, also
colored drawings of two difl‘erent lamps.
with wicks and flame, and eight_difl"er-
ent lamps, burning on the desk before
him, Prof. Langley is fluentand some-
what rapid in speech, quiet in manner,
and aims to instruct by candor and clear-
ness. He answered many questions
from the audience, which was largely
composed of legislators.

The professor praised the oil-tester in-
vented by Dr. Kedzie, but did not be-
lieve the high test of 14U° is necesarry
for safety. The Michigan test is also 10°
more severe than the Ohio test. The
Ohio test of 120° he considered perfectly
safe; also that the Ohio oil gives 33- times
as much light for the same weight as
Michigan oil, for the reason that the lat-
ter oil is thicker, is more like sirup, and
cannot rise through the wick so freely.
He demonstrated the inferiority of light
from Michigan oilas compared with that
f'rom Ohio oil by burning the two kinds
in two lamps exactly alike before the
audience. He maintained that explo-
sions, injury, and death are caused by
burning oil only when it contained naph-
tha, and was sold in violation of all legal
tests. He dipped a piece of cotton cloth
in naphtha and lighted it with a match,
to show that it flashed almost like gun-
powder, while strips of the same cloth,
dip ed in Michigan and Ohio oil, burned
so is owly that they could be extinguish-
ed by hand without serious injury. The
thermometer was used to indicate the
heat in vapor-chambers of different
lamps, and it was proved that this heat
ranged from 82° to 89° in lamps burning

with chimneys, and 99° in a lamp burn-
ing withouta chimney. The Michigan
test being 140°, there is a. difference of
41° in the extreme heat that can be
caused in a vapor-chamber, even with-
out a chimney, and the flash test of
Michigan oil; or 21° difference between
the heat of a vapor chamber and the
flash test of Ohio‘ oil. The difference
between the Michigan test and the heat
of the vapor chamber is like the differ-
ence between a cake of ice and summer
warmth; and in the Ohio case it is
equal to the difference between a com-
fortable outdoor climate and the middle
of asnow-bank. This security would
‘seem am le against explosions. _ -

The di erent varieties of burners for

kerosene oil were described, and an ex-
planation given of the Moehring burn-
er, which is one of the class invented to
burn heavy oils by beating them in-
tensely; for, as the law has required
kerosene oil to be heavier or thicker,
the burner-makers have increased the
heating power of their burners so as to
bring the oil up to the top of the wick
in spite of its thickness.

Please read the above carefully, and
note that Prof. K. “has no interest in the
oil question” — also that this lecturer
could use two ,lam s exactly alike,
another lecturer could) not or did not,
but had an Argand burner for high test
oil and a common one for low test oil,
and then put the edge of the flames to-
ward the instrument.

 

COUNTY Granges will please semi the
address of one or more earnest mem-
bers Qf each weak or dormant Grange
in their jurisdiction to the Lecturer of
the State Grange. -

DORMANT Granges can with little or
no expense, re-organize, and get to
work again. Any officer or member
may correspond with the State Lectur-
er and General Deputy in regard to the
matter, and obtain full particulars.

MORENCI, March 4th, 1879.
Worthy Sec’y Cobb .-

It being some time since We have
seen anything in the VISITOR from
Morenci Grange, I am inclined to let
the readers of the VISITOR know how
we are prospering. The hall of Moren-
ci Grange,No. 280, is situated on the
main corner in the village of Morenci,
and we number only 55 members, but
are active, working Patrons of Husban-
dry ; and willing to stand for the right,
to put their shoulders to the wheel, and
help roll on this grand and noble in-
stitution.

Since the beginning of this year we
have initiated four candidates, received
three dimitted members, and reinstated
five suspended members by payment
of back dues. We feel that we are
gaining strength, not so much finan-
cially as educationally and socially.

As our Grange is near the Ohio State

’line we often make and receive visits

from neighboring Granges over theline.
One Week ago last Saturday evening
we were agreeably surprised by about
30 members from Chesterfield Grange,
entering all at once, and as they were
forming in front of, or rather around
the Overseer, our Worthy Master call-
ed up——in respect to these friends who
surprised us. After which a recess was
announced, and a good, general social
time was enjoyed, to say nothing of
the supply of apples which seemed to
find their way to the hall.

After recess the third Degree was con-
ferred. In our enjoymentand prosper-
ity I trust we shall try to help our
Brothers and Sisters who have been
less fortunate. Last Saturday evening
our Grange, with a portion of Cliester-
field Grange visited Fayette Grange,sit-
uated in the village of Fayette, Ohio,
which for the past two years has been
struggling along with its head above
water; but they have taken a new
hold of the work and are making an
extra effort to live, and although
their numbers are small and their la-
borers few, yet with the zeal and energy

they manifested that evening they can- >

-not die. \Ve believe in the old adage,-
“ In trying tohelp others, we help our-
selves," for we all came home determin-
ed to labor with renewed diligence, ‘and
to heed the teaching that “ whatever we
attempt to do, strive to do well.”

The Lenawee Co. Pomona Grange
holds its next session with the Fairlield
Grange, by invitation, to give them a
helping hand, as they need encourage-
ment. Let all Patrons attend that
meeting who can and let us sustain
each other. I will vouch for a goodly
number of Morenci Grange being pres-
ent on that occasion. '

Yours fraternally,
SECRETARY.

COUNTIES not having County
Granges need to organize them for
the benefit of the dormant or weak
Granges in the County. Remember
those who help others, help them-
selves.”

 

THE State Lecturer has written on
an average, -5 letters per day since
Jan. lst. on Grange busiuess.—appoint-
merits and Dormant Granges taking

»most of the correspondence. This

Order gives the Post-office depaifment
some work. .-

___. ,._n __H __;___ _.___

W§atiit5' flzpnrtmmt. _

A PLEA FOR THE VISITOR.

\Vafted on the morning breezes,
Bourne to us from lands afar,

Comes the news from many Granges,
Of strong resolve, and prospects fair.

Evening zephyrs whisper to us,
Telling us, be of good cheer,

That the Grange is stronger growing.
And improving every year.

More good news is waited to us,
Through the Visiroii. it comes ;
This spicy sheet we ever welcome,
\Velcome it to all our homes.

Kind Visrroiz, it is thy mission

To urge all to forward press,

Work for the right, work cheerfully,’
Demand your own, and take no less.

\Vhen we read thy cheering pages,
Hope anew our hearts inspire,

For we see your earnest purpose,

To raise the farmers’ calling higher.

VVe will bless the, ever bless thee,

For thy helpful words of cheer,

And thy bright and cheering presence,
We will ever welcome here.

May thy life be long and prosperous;
To every Grange, good news impart,
THEE, will we greet at every coming,
And YOU will strengthen head and heart.

N nu.
Fraternal Grange, N 0. -106.

Flowers.

Flowers have rightly been called the
stars of the earth, embracing many
emblems of virtue unknown to man.
They purif'y the air, and are beautiful
to use for adornments, es ially during
the winter months. T ey can cheer
and comfort the sick, and by their aid
even a bare and cheerless room can be
made pleasant and homelike.

June is thought by some to be the
most delightful month of the year, be-
cause it is the month of flowers. In
this month there is no lack of floweis;
they smile at us from under the shadow
of the great trees of the wood ; , they
gleam in the sunlight that falls on the
green carpet of the prairie like beauti-
ful stars of different colors, and fill the
air with the most delicious perfume.
Their variety is almost endless. God
has scattered His beauty all over the
world, with a lavish hand.

Flowers abound on the mountain side.
in the shady doll by the river’s bank,
and even in the ugly swamp. They
are as free as air, and about as necessary
tea happy life. In no other country
in the world Is their love and culture
making such wonderful and rapid pro-
gress as in our own favored land.

Our country is becoming very beau-
tiful. Flowers are to be seenralmost
everywhere in town and country. New
gardens, well-kept lawns',”and pleasant
homes are springing up everywhere.
If we do not travel, we know but little
of this general and rapid improvement.
But what we see in our own town and
neighborhood is, perhaps, a fair sample
of what may be observed from Maine to
California. , '

The advance of floral taste in America

‘during the past few years has»been,»truly

wonderful, perhaps unequalled. >Beau-
tiful lawns, gardens and tasteful houses
abound where, a few years ago, we saw
the crooked rail fence, the trees and
stumps and small log cabins. A person
can succeed in beautifying the rudesi
home by the aid of flowers. . They are
beautiful wherever you may place
them, whether in the mansions of the
wealthy or in the cottages of the p00{-

Inthe Spring and Summer the prai-
rie is made beautiful by them ; nature
has scattered them there in great pl'0‘
fusion. -

How pleasant it is on a warm Sum‘
mer’s day to sit in the cool shade Of
some great tree and look at the flowers»
swayed by the gentle breeze, their P9"
fume pervades every nook and corner.
But to really love and enjoy them 0119
must study and cultivate them. 9
should beautify our homes with them,
-for they are the most beautiful and the
least expensive of anything which We
can use as adornments. We .ih0“l‘l
protect and cherish them. Their study
and culture generally elevate and refine
a person, and tend tomake himsbeiierv
buttliey never degrade .nor _eV91‘.1°W“
any one in any manner w_h_8teV9"'

 


THE GRANGE VISITOR.

7

Though their cultivation takes_ both
time and labor, and perhaps patience,
we are always amply rewarded.

Flowers are beautiful in their simplest
forms. They develop in our heart a
love for the beautifuland a taste for
nature’s higher forms of loveliness.
The also increase the attractions of
our omes. _

Many people admire flowers, yet .are
unwilling to cultivate them, but would
at any time gladly accept a bouquet
which had taken the labor and time of
another to produce. But you would
think that any one would enjoy them
more if they would raise them them-
selves. This is not, however, always
the case. If we are worthy of a home,
we should strive .to_make it pleasant
and cheefful_ This is necessary at all
times of the year,_but_especially so dur-
ing the winter. 1\othing will aid in this
work ascheaply and well as flowers.
They are a constant source of delight ;
every day presenting new buds_ and
blossoms, and new forms of lovliness,
and we look and admire.

A little skill and knowledge, perhaps,
ia necessary to management of flowers,
in order to have success, which is nec-
essary to enjoyment. \Ve should _have
flowers, with which to cheer the winter
hours, for by the exercising of a little
taste-.,a great deal of leasure may be
derived from their cu tivation._ There
are some plants that are particularly
suited for winter flowering. The hya-
cinth is avery beautiful and fragrant
flower, and seems especially designed
for house culture. It does more than
any other to make winter cheerful. The
primrose adds a great deal to winter
beauty. The ten-weeks stock is also a
line winter-bloomer. A pot of mignon-
ette costs but little, and affords a great
deal of pleasure. The ivy and Madeira
vine are graceful climbers and look
beautiful.

In summer we should have at least a
few showy beds. Many people, when
they see a fine display of flowers in the
gardens of theirneighbors in the Spring,
resolve to have at least a few next year;
but the matter is forgotten until the
Spring flowers again remind them
of their neglect. In order to raise
flowers successfully, we should study
their nature. Some delight in shade,
others in sunshine; some need a great
amount of moisture, while others re-
quire scarcely any. Therefore, unless
we know their nature, we may kill
many by what we think an act of
kindness. If we wish to make a
pretty and tasteful flower garden we
must know what kind of seed to select.
Many fail with their gardens from want
of this knowledge. Those who are just
beginning to raise flowers (and conse-
quently have had but little experience)
should select the kinds most easily
grown, such as balsams, petunias dian.
thus, phlox, etc., with only a few’of the
more difficult. Seed should also be se-
lected suited to the purpose for which
it is designed. Fences or porches can
he covered quickly by the Morning
Glory or some other free-growing climb-
er. If we wish showy beds weraniums
petunias, verbenas and glzidioli look’
beautiful. For small bouquets ’ mig-
“"“eW?y B-lyssuni and geranium’leaves
are desirable. A great many garden
adornments can beziiurchased at a ver
lime 009‘. and some can be made a)t
h°me by exercising a little taste and
skill. A well filled vase is a beautiful
adornment for the lawn If we wish to
have early flowers we should send for
$ehS9ed_early in the Spring, in order

ave _it sown and the plants trans-
planted iu good season. Now is a. very
 tune to_send for seed. Let us all,
0f%year strive to have a showy yard

°We_1'S- KATIE E. SHEAP.

Sturgis Gran 28. No. 332.

T‘j,_,E"- Gmzrye Visitor .- ,
for  find three dollars aiida half,
mm hsend seven copies of the V15-

Nearl e followin_ persons; fr *
takes ytheve fami y in our Grange
r b 6 ISITOR now ( with -these).
per i1'0tt;hers and sisters all say _.the
gen b Sf ar bet-ter now than it has ever
on and ore. Its bold and fearless stand
gross "fill rtant questions which en-
wam.Jl1f1:,._ _lc attention, gains for it many
id“ it{9l'l(_1s outside the Order. _The
read th licirculated and the more it is
S :1 ed etter will the public under-
,,bject*“1 appreciate the true aims and
g 3 Of our organization. ‘

- ‘ '1‘. G. CHANDLER,
Sylvania, Lucas Co., 0.

LEONIDAS, March 8th, 1879.
Brother Cobb : ,
At our last regular meeting, Marc
5th, the following resolution was adopt-

ed .
Resolved, That the sum of $10 be ap-

STURGIS, March 5th, 1879.
- Worthy Brother,-_

Enclosed, I hand you an essay for
publication in the GRANGE Visrroa,
writted by Miss Katie Sheap, (which
appears in this number.) Miss Sheap

propriated from our Grange funds for is only about 16 years of age, and is the
the purpose of helping to defray the daughter of Worthy Master Sheap of

expenses of the suits now pending in
the U. S. Courts, involving the Lee &
'1ea1 patents on gates.

The same to be subject to your order

when needed; and in case it is wanted,
$10 more will be also placed at your dis-

Sturgis Grange. No. 336. It is one of a
series of essays to be read by the young-
er membership of our Grange, as a
part of the literary entertainment fur-
nished at our regular meetings.

Short essays, select readings from

posal. We feel that it is important that our best American authors, together

these suits should be decided as soon as
possible. '

By order of Vergennes Grange, No.
221. Lnvi NASH, Sec.

DANSVILLE. Mich. Mar. 6, 1879.
Bro. J. T Cobb:
Dansville Grange N0.54,as its number

with discussions relating to the farm-
er’s interests have added much to the
profitableness of our social gatherings.
While we do not number so large a
membership as at the beginning of
last year, yet so far as the working of
our Order is concerned, we do hesitate
in saying that we have a more efficient
corps of workers, who are ready and

indicates, Was early organized. Quite a willing to cooperate in rightful meaS_

number dropped off after the first year;
it happened to be those we could
spare as well as not. Twenty ood
and strong members were left. T ese
put their shoulders to the wheel and
held it until assistance came and reliev-
ed them. Now we can boast of as good
a working Grange as there is in the
State. Our members number 45. - \Ve
have‘ taken in ten since the first of Jan.
and have a number of applications to
act upon, and more are coming.

We have a nice new hall and with
the aid of our noble Sisters we have it
decorated in grand style. We received
a call from Bro. Brown of Rawsonville,
Mich. Throwing open our doors, the
hall was crowded to its utmost capacity.
He gave us a brief history of the

urea to insure its growth in interest
and prosperity.
Yours res iectfully,
G. D. G. ‘HURSTON, Lecturer.
Pi-:wAMo, March 3d, 1879.
Ionia County Grange, No. 16, will
hold its next meeting at the Hall of
Woodward Lake Grange, No. 190, on
the 18th inst. A good time may be safety
anticipated.
A. W. SHER\V'()OD, Lecturer.

Important Testluiony on Paint.

Nrzw EGYPT, N. I. Feb. 12, 1879
O. R. Ingersoll, Esq.,Mana_qer Patrons’
Paint Company. Dear Sir and Bro.-—

Grange? from its 01'g3«11iZ3ti0n “P to the My house, painted last year with your

present time ;,also touched upon points

Ready Mixed Paint, looms up before

of general interest to the Order. A few the eye grandly, and is the cynesure of

of our number, “ not being fully fed,"

all sightseers. You recollect I tried to

followed him to White Oak, thence to h D __ d M _ S_ f th- 1
Fitchburg Grange, and wished that he ,,,‘,‘§,‘§, 3:0,“. pa:-fits, bl; coufd ,,0{”,,,‘f,fl°c§
might Staf in the County 1°ng91'- MOW them. Now mark the contrast at this

anon. Yours fraternally,
R. P. DAYTON.
PALO, March 7, 1679.
Bro. J. T. Cobb.-
At a meeting of Woodard Lake
Grange, No. 190, held on the 6th. it

present time. The Doctor’s is in streaks
and looks dirty and old, as if painted
many years. Mr. S’s house has faded
very much, while mine looks more bril-
liant than ever. When the full moon
shines upon the house, it looks likea
block of silver at broad daylight. The

was voted to set apart $25 to contest verandah ceiling reflects the arched
the slide gate swindle, subject to order brackets of the colums like ahuge mir-

of committee, with an additional twen-
ty-five if needed. VVe want to precsnt
a solid front and pay -nothing but what
is right and just. Count on Grange,
No. 190, to stand their share every
time to fight monopolies and swindlers.
Yours fraternally,
E. D. DECKER, Sec.

THREE RIVERS, March. 9, 1879.
Brother J. T. Cobb .-

St. Joseph Co. Pomona Grange, No.
4, at its last annua.l meeting, March 6,
vot-ed $25 subject to your order, to be
used  needed in defense of suits now
pending or hereafter instituted by the
swindling agents of the Lee or Teel
patent gates.

Please notice in Visrroit that St.
Joseph »Grange will hold its next
annual meeting at Centreville, the first
Thursday in April, commencing at 10
o’clock A. )1. All Patrons cordially
invited to attend.

\V. G. LELAND, Sec.

CHICAGO, Ill., Feb. 23, 1879.
Bro. Cobb .-

VVill you please insert the following
in the GRANGE Visrroit. When I ac-
cepted the invitation to be present at
the meeting of the Grange at Porter,
it had not occurred to me that it would
“conflict with our annual meeting of the
Northwestern Produce Association, at
which it was my duty to be present.
VVhile regreting the necessity of hav-

- ing to excuse myself at this time, I am

very respectfully at the service of the
Order. Yours fraternally,
TI-IOS. Masox.

The next meeting of the Iugliam Co.
Grange, No. 14, will be held in the
rooms of Bunkerhill Grange, on the
25th day of April, afternoon and even-
ing. . O. F. MiLLi=i1i., Sec.

 Dividend.

The Patrons’ Paint Company have
declared a cash dividend of seven per
cent. for the year 1878, ptgyable March
1st 1879,.to stockholders ’ record, Dec-
lst,1878. This isthe 3d annual di_vi-
dend thecompany haspaid, and with
guaranteed dividend, 25 percent, makes

_ 96 er cent for three years.

Fraternally, O. E. INGERSOLL.

ror. Every one notes the contrast of
the mixed paints over the old way, and
admires the glossy appearance of the
building. You can fully refer any one
to this house, for it is the largest and
most conspicuous building on the line
of the Camden & Amboy R. R. via.
Pemperton. Signed,
JOHN S. MALLORY.

NoTE.—Patrons’ Paint Company's
book, “ Every one their Own Painter,”
mailed free. Address, South and Dover
streets, New York. Cheapest and best
paints in the world.

THE REAPER, DEATH.
DIED, at his home in Wyoming, Jan. 31st,
1879, SAMUEL KIEFER, a beloved member of

Wyoming Grange, No. 353. In the death of
Brother Kiefer, the Grange sustains a great
loss of one of its most worthy members, and
the family a devoted husband and father. The
memory of his noble deeds will remain in the
years which are to come.
Mas CORDELIA M. ARNOLD, Sec’y.

FOR sitii ANFWANT NOTICES.

“I.-\N'l‘ED.—-100 LBS. MAPLE SUGAR:

in exchange for good, two years old Ap-
ple Trees of choice varieties, Currants, Goose-
berriss, Strawberries, &c.

. ' HENRY COLLINS,
Past Master of Oakwood, No. 333,
\Vhite Pigeon, St. J oséph Co., Mich.
March I0, 1879. '

OR SALE. THREE SCOTCH COLLY
SHEPHERD DOGS.
Address, M. J. SPENCER,

Pontiac, Mich.

iii an ii-‘luweriee s.

Thanking former patrons, we again ofier GAR-
DEN and FLOWER SEEDS and PLANTS,
&c., at low rates. ' . _

We Will Send $1.50 worth of Seeds, in Papers

or by the Ounce for One Dollar.

7' “We will send PLANTS and SHRUBS by Ex-
press at 25 per cent Discount——‘aiid add enough
to pay expressage. Correspondence, with stamp,
invited. Send Orders early to ‘

Lake Shore Greenhouse and Garden,

Mai-ch 12-t2. Muskegon, Mich;

PRlCE LIST of suispuasg

MICHIGAN § '1‘ AT E GRANGE,

And sent out Post Paid, onlmceipt of Cash Or-
der, over the seal of a Subordinate Grange,
and the signature of its Master or Secretary.

._.—.

Porcelain Ballot Marbles, er hu.ndred,.. . 60

Blank Book, ledger ruled, or Secretary to
keep accounts with members, ........ . . 1 0

Blank Record Books, (E ress aid),. . . . . 1 00

Order Book, containing 1 Orifets on the -
Treasurer, with stub, well bound, .... . .

Receipt Book, containing 100 Receipts
from Treasurer to Secretary, with stub,
well bound, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Blank Rocei ts for dues, per 100, bound,. .

Cushing‘s ual,

Applications for Membership, per 100, ....

Membership Cards, per 100, . . . . . . . . . . . ..

Withdrawal Cards, per doz.,......... ....

Dimits, in envelopes, per doz., . . . . . . . . . . .

By-Laws of the State and Subordinate
Grariges, single copies 3c, per doz.,. . . . .

New kind of Singing Books, with music,
Single copy 15 ctu. per doz., .......... .. 1 80

Rituals, single copy, .................. . . 1:’)

“ er doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1 60

Blanks for Consolidation of Granges, sent
free on application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

Blank “Articles of Association” for the
limo ration of Subordinate Granges
with o y of Charter, all complete,. . . . . 10

Patmn’s odzet Companion, by J. A. Cra-
mer, Cloth, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Notice to Delinquent Members, per 100, .. 40

Address, J. T. COBB,
Sac’! Mica. S-run Gannon,

SCHOOLCRAFT. MICH.

Grange HEADQUARTERS.
THOMAS MASON,

General Commission Merchant.

183 SOUTH WATER STREET,
CHICAGO. - - ILLINOIS.
Purchasing Agent /or the Patrons of Husband-
ry, authorized by Executive Committe of the
Michigan State Grange; Agent of the N. W.
Produce Exchange Association, principal ofiice,
Buchanan, Mich. ; also, Agent of the Michigan
Lake Shore Fruit Growers’ Association, Steven-
ville, Mich., '

Respectfully solicits Consignments of

FRUITS. VEGETABLES. BUHER. EGGS.

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

GRAIN, I-IOGS, and CATTLE

V In Car Lots. Also,
L UMBER in Car or Cargo Lots.
Having a. large and conveniently arranged
House in the business art of the city, we are
prepareto handle g sin an quantity, and,
being on the SHADY SIDE o the street, can
show PERISHABLE goods in BEST CON DI-
TION, throughout the day. With

SUPERIOR" FACILITIES,
and close personal attention to business, we
hope to merit, receive, and retain a liberal share
of your patronage.

Orders for goods in this market will be filled
at lowest wholesale rates. -

Cash must Accompany Orders
to Insure Prompt Attention.
-——B.EFERENCE8 :—-

Executive Committee of Mich. State Grange.
J. J. Woodman, Paw Paw, Mich. ‘ ’
J. T. Cobb, Schoolcraft, Mich.

Herman, Schafiner & Co., Bankers, Chicago, Ill.
Thomas Mars, Berrien Centre, Mich.

W. A. Brown, _Sec’y Mich. L. S. F. G. Ass'n,

Stevensville, Mich.
§" Stencils, Shipping '1‘ ags, and Market Re-
ports furnished on application.

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. mar.12’79

J. M. CHIDISTER,

STATE BUSINESS AGENT, P. 0111.,
DEALER IN

GIIAI N5.

—AND—

All kinds" of Country Produce,

so woonnainén s'r.,-w_e§t,. .

gnsirsorr, . - MICHIGAN

Ballot Boxes, (hard wood,) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81 2-’) .

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I will sell three inch and three and
one-fourth inch THIMBLE SKEIN
WAGONS, complete on cars at Niles,
Michigan, for ($45) forty-five Dollars
each. Without Box or Seat, Thirty-

Five Dollars.
‘ E. MURRAY.
Niles, Mich., March lst, 1879.

Important to Bee-Keepers !

 

COLVIN’S

Excelsior Bee Hive!

With the Latest Improved Honey Racks.

‘I'll E GREATEST ADVANCEME.\' 1‘
in BEE CULTURE Ever Made.
Great scientific principles involved for Win-
ieriug Bees and securing a. larger amount of
honey, in lightest but strongest Backs now in
use, its weight being one-half ounce for each
pound of honey. Every B.ee_-keeper NEEDS
these Racks. Can be used on nearly all hives.
Sample Hives with Racks for 60 pounds
of Honfiy, ....  .... ....  ....$2..'5
Sample ives with Racks for 30 pounds
of Honey,     2.2;’)
Two Section of Honey Racks sent free on re-
ceipt of 5 cents.
Address L. F. COX,
Portage, Kalamazoo Co., Mich.

SMALL FRUIT %

 

_.._yr_.
4
Low Przoes to Patrons.
___.o.___
G R A P E S .
Per 100
No. 1 well Booted Concord plants..." ...$3.00
No. 1 well Rooted Delaware plants, .... .. 5.00
_.o_.
RASPBERRIES.
Per 100
Mammoth Cluster, (Black) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60 cts.
Doolittle, “ . . . . . . . . . . . ..60 “
Highland Hardy, (Red).... . «
Turner, “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .lo -‘
_._.o_._.

STR AVVB ERR. IE5.
Wilson's Albany, Jucunda, President Wil<ler,
Seth Boyden No. 30, and Monarch of the \Vest.

Any of the above varieties at 50 cents per
hundred, well packed and delivered at the Ex-
press Ofioe at Benton Harbor.‘ Or will send in
small quantities, by mail, any of the above
plants. to any one forwarding pay for plants,

and money to pre-pay postage thereon.

Please send money in Registered Letter, or
Poe flice Monay Order, to
jau2 -3m _ \VM. J. N'0'l"l'.
Benton Harbor. Berrien 00.. Mich.

5-TON STOCK SCALES,
$50.

rumour mm, AND NO MONEY ASK
no "rm. TESTED.

JONES, of Binghamton,

BINGHAMTON, N. Y

mayfim

Paw Paw, Mich, May 18th, 1878.
Jonas, or Bnvonurros: _ - _

My Scales give entire aatnfactum. I have
an ' it Goths most severe tests, and find it
not only (:O!'l'B¢tf::l' large or small

e re .
amounts’ but perYoui-,3, Fraternally,
[Signed] -

c:..¢.. Stock for Say. Cheap-
B. H. To ’ r.’ of Dpwzzi-m 03" °°-- 5“ *9’

flrsteolass Business
sale_.It ‘ Pi?” Dimaflno sud? .

'El(lVll.l. EDNVHD 9'-ll 01 59°!-ld

 t, ;a -, tine tum-gm-r.~9 . Kong-
so Duck.-

THE GRANGE VISITOR;

Paints and Paris Green.

PRICES REDUCED FOR 1879.

PATRUNS’ Pliii COMPANY!

lngersoll’s Ready Mixed Paints,
Paris Green and Brushes.
Best and Cheapest Paints -in
the Wo1'ld.

Freight paid on Paint and Paris Green to all
parts of the country. So it makes no differ-
ence where you live, you get goods at the same
price as if you were at the Factory.

Our Book "How Every one can Paint."
with 20 Brilliant Colors, Brushes, etc., illustrat-
ed, mailed free upon application to PATRO.\'S' ,
PAINT CO., 162 South St., N. Y. =

~——'l‘RUSTEES:

T. A. Thompson. Pres, Past Lec. Nat. Grange E
Samuel B. Adams, of Miun., Master " '- 3
D. W'yatt Aiken. of S. 0., Ch’m Ex. Com. “ E
Mortimer ‘Whitehead, of N. J., Lee. Nat. “ i
O. H. Kelley, Past Secretary National Grange. '
J. W’. A. Wright, Master Cal. State Grange.

M. D. Davie, Master State Grange, Kentucky.

The Huyndmanl

EVERY FARM}.-IR Should TAKE IT.

It is thoroughly Reliable
and Practical in Every
Department.

It is Owned, Edited and Managed
by FARMERS, and is an able Ex-
ponent of the Agricultural

Interests of the Country. _

THE Husnsxnxsx discusses ublic questions
from the farmers standpoint. t demands that
the burdens of taxation should be more e uita-
bly placed on all classes of property, an that
the farming interests be thereby measurably
relieved.

Tm: Husnsxnxsx contends against unjust
discrimination in freight charges, by which the
present railroad management is heaping heavy
burdens on the farmers of this and other States.

No other farmers paper pays as careful heed
to its Market .Ii.ep0rts, which are thoroughly
reliable and accompanled with comments show-
ing the condition of the market and tendency
of prices.

In short, Tm; Husssxnrux seeks to promote
in every way the greatest good of the agricul-
ral class, and is such a paper as farmers every-
where ought to read and support. The reports
or"the discussions of the famous

Elmira. Farmers Club

occupy about one page of the paper each week,
and are alone worth more to any practical
farmer than the cost of subscription.

Many of the leading farmers in diflerent parts
of the country are among its large number of
correspondents.

Hon. Alonzo Sessions, the present Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, and an old and successful
farmer, in a letter urging the farmers of his
own county to take this paper said: " I have
read Tm; Hvsnssmmx for more than two
years, and I do not hesitate to recommend it as
the BEST FARMERS PAPER that I ever read.
I take and read several other papers, but I will
say frankly that no paper comes to my house
that is more welcome to myself and to all my
family, and not one that is read with so much
pleasure and profit.”

As a representative of the GRANGE, THE
Husnsxnxsx is highly prized by the leading
members of the Order, in all sections of the
country. It is not sensational, but is candid
and influential. '

The Husbandman is a Large Eight-Page
Paper, and only 81.50 per year.
Postage Free.

The interesting character of Tim HusrsAnn-
MAN. and low price, command it at once to
farmers everywhere, and make it an easy task
to secure a club of subscribers in any Grange or
community. Send for sample copies which are-

furnished free. Address,

uusnsxnmsx. Elmira. N.Y,

We will send TEE .HussA,xn1‘u_x, and THE

omzv-or: vrsrron for one  ‘lo: 0 1 .70.
ml; in’ cm. 9: an ll: more, onoo mil.

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:-—l THE TWENTY rump

j DESCRIPTIVE ILLUSTRATED

H PRICE LIST is now ready and _will be sEN_r
FREE ‘to any person who may ask for it. From this
desirable book you can obtain the Wholesale Prices ‘of
nearly every article you require for personal ‘or family
use, mi. as Dryd-oods, Hosiery. Notions, Clothing Hats, H
Gaps, Boots, Shoes. Carpets, Oilcloths, Cutlery. Silver, _aud
sate. Plated Ware, Watches, Jewelry, Sewing lllaclmws, H
Trunks, Traveling Bag-N Pipes, T 0120060. 0594173, 37038,
T in- Ware, Sruldles, Baby Carriages, Itocki-ng—IIorse.s,
Velocipedes, (to.

We sell all our Goods at Wholesale Prices, in any quantities to suit the Purchasers. ‘nu
only institution of the kind in America. Address,

MOJVTGOMER Y WARD at 00.,

227 and 229 “’abash Ave“ CHICAGO. 11.1,,

CARRY THE NEWS! $500.

“ Behold I we bring you Glad Tidings of Great Jay I "
The Deaf Ifear I The Blind See, and Leap for Joy .’

$500.

 

The uu«lo:.-rsignell having been appointed Sole Agent for

M. L. James’ Great Remedy

With power to use it for the best interest of Hnm_1nity, and having also consented to continue
as Agent of the Kalamazoo Co-operative Association or the P. of H., and being so PRESSED
VVITH ORDERS that it is im sible for him to attend to them gironiptly, and feeling that he
cannot justly refuse the URG VT APPEALS for THE GREAT E EDY, has consented to
make the follwing otfer to those who desire to take advantage of the same. The price of the

Remedy, as all know, is 50 cents and 81 per Bottle, BUT TO ALL SENDING ONE DOLLAR '

the Recipe to make the Medicine will be sent, so that anyone can make for themselves, and
SAVE OUR TIME and themselves a vast amount of suffering at times, as well as many dollars
in money.

The inventor has often olferod 8500 for a case of Deafness, Roaring in the Head, Cstarrh,
Sore or VVeak Eyes, Lame Buck, Kidney Complaint, Rheumatism, Nervous Complaint, Filed,
Dyspepsia, or Stiff Joint, THAT HE COULD NOT CURE WITH THE REMEDY.

Without stopping to enumerate hundreds of cases in various parts of the Conntr when
success has attended the use of this GREAT REMEDY. sufiice it to say. the case of rs. Pier-
son, of Allegan County, who had not stepped for six years. Mrs. Sprague, of Branch County.
who was a confirmed invalid for years. Miss Cripe, daughter of Rev. Jacob Gripe, of South
Bend, lnd., who was blind. The old gentleman at Niles with Palsy. The daughter of John
Oochrane, Blind from inflamation of the eye. Aver B. Snyder, deaf for several years. Samuel
R. Dolph, for several years roaring in the head. iss Derby, daughter of Spencer Dorb , of
Jackson County, who was Blind and had no_use of her limbs. The gentleman at Hudson, ich.,
who had been troubled with Rheumatism for twelve years, and for several months unable to
wall-r—-together with hosts of others warrant us in the belief that it is s SURE REMEDY in
DEAFNESS, CATABRH, ASTHMA, PILES, DISEASES OF THE EYE, RHEUMAIIC
AND NERVOUS COMPLAINTS, DYSPEPSIA, Alec.

Ladies with Nervous Complaints will find it a friend in need.

AG ENTS WANTED EVERYVVII ERE—To sell the Great Remedy. Any good active
man or woman can make money selling the Remedy. Address,

3, 3. JAMES.
Bus. Agz‘. Kalamazoo 0o—operafive A5371, P. of/i.

Lock Box 295. Kalamazoo. Mich.

P. ~§.———To those who are not personally acquainted with the subscriber. Dr. James, we will
only say as reference, that he has _for the past four years noted as Master Arcadia Grange. No.
‘ll, and for nearly three years as agent of the Kalamazoo Co-operative, Assoiction of the P. of
H., and makes this ofier for the good of those who may be in need or relief. Enclose a stamp

it you wish an answer to your letters.
$500.

$500.
C O l_ V l N S’
German Home and low Powder. EUREKA BEE _ ENE

It should be the aim of every farmer to make
his horses and cattle as handsome and useful and 1310383’ Bracki-
as possible. Nearly every teamster who drives

7 ' V‘.
ateam of very fine horses feeds Condition MADE 01‘ AN ENTIRELY haw PLA‘

Powders, either openly or secretly.

The German Horse and Cow Powdor is of
the highest value for stock. It aids digestion
and assimulation. It holpsto develop all the
powers of the animal. It improves its beaut
and increases its usefulness. It makes fat an
milk. By using it a horse will do more work,
and acow give more milk, and be in better
condition, with less feed.

By giving poultry a heaped tablespoonfnl
occasionaliy in a quart of shop, it will keep
them healthy and increase the quuutity of gs.
By giving hogs 9. large heaped tablespoofiul,
with the same quantity of salt, in a half peck
pi scolded wheat bran for eve four hogs, twice
a week you will prevent HOG' XSELBE.

Put up in five pound packages, six packages
in ahox. at 12 cents a. pound; orin sixty pound
boxes at ten cents a pound. The receipt is

ted on each package and box. Made 11 Dr.
Ooliierholtzermt his mills, No; 2 Fetter Ivane,
Philadelphia. Pa. Sold by? IL E. JAMES.
Kalamazoo (lo-operative  No. 8]
North Bnrdiekfit,  Mich, ‘and by
J. H.  State Business
Asont. Chm-so. m...o.t the’ Ionian Wholesale

. 1 .

A Great Advancement in BEE-CUI.'I‘UBE-
Gives UNIVERSAL SATISFACTION Wh0l‘9'
introduced.

Sample Hive——Gomplete, - - 33-50-
Liberal discount on large Ordeal.

Ad
McCALL & \VlLLlAM§o

Schoolcrafl, Kalamazoo C001 Mm‘

MGCALL J» WKLLAMS:

Gm¢'rs:—After a thorough trial of the EU‘
nnxs BEE-HIVES, both for Comb sud %
ti-acted Honey; I can positively assert. that ho
saving,_and makin large coloniefi. "15 f°' La
production of s us Honey. it is we V3
by any Hive oiii have ever seen or

YOUWILW’ Txoirggfl.

. I do hereby endqrgs-1~the shtaofl 0‘ 3'"

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