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“THE FARMER IS OF JIIORE CONSEQUENCE TITAN THE FARM, AND SHOULD BE FIRST IIIIPROVED.”

Von. 7,—No. 8. }
WHOLE No. 112.

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INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.

The Farmer's Wife — Seeding to Clover — Buying
Fruit Trees——Wire and Picket Fence——More about
the Wire and Picket Fence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Pickings by the Way, N o. 26—Grange Music — How
They Prize the Grange—Progress1ng—Information
Wanted—A Fortunate G-range—-To the Patrons of
Husbandry —-The State University and the Agri-
eultural College —- How much Interest shall the
Farmer Take in Politics? — Our Social Advan-
tages, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Secret of Success—Shall VVe be Dilatory? —— Chil-
dren’s Grange—Grange Festival — About Hiding
Grange Talents—From the Grand Traverse Region
—Ferris Grange, No. 440 —A Farmer with Good
Brains—- Salem Grange, No. 476 -—- Give Post-Office
Address, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

To Correspondents-—The New Constitutional Amend-
ment—Eligible to Membership at 14-What Shall the
Harvest be 'f—That Silver Wedding——The New
York Tribune and the Anti-Monopoly League. . . 4

State Agricultural College of Michigan—The Silver
Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Woodman —The
Grange in Kalamazoo County—Grange Discus-
sions — Our Whereabouts —— Dominion Grange-
Seeds, Plants. and Bulbs—Forest Grange, No. 362.
Washed and Unwashed Wool—Not1ces of Meet-
ings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Where is your Boy To-Night ? - Butter Making —
flDoes a Man Support his Wife ?—I-Iired Girls, . . . 6
Hi1.r1-’ciiEEgg§:-A Uncle‘ N ine—Rejoices — From the
Nieces and Nephews—The Reaper, Death — Ad-
vertisements, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

A Model Patron—-Advertisements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8

Officers National Grange.

MABTEB—J. J. WOODMAN, (Paw Paw) Michigan.
Ovsassxa—PUT. DARDEN. - - Mississippi.
LEo'1'mzEn—-HENRY ESHBAUGH, - Missouri.
S'1'3wABD—-A. J. VAUGHN, - Mississippi.
Asst‘. Srnwsnn-WILLIAM SIMS, - Kansas
CEAPLAIN—S. H. ELLIS, - - - Ohio.
Tnsasuasa-F. M. MCDOWELL, - New York.
SEOBETABY—WM. M. IRELAND, Washington, D.C.
Gu-1:-Kxarnn—0. DINWIDDIE, - Indiana.
Csans——MRS. J. J. WOODMAN, - Michigan.
Poxos‘s—MB.S. PUT. DARDEN, - Mississippi-
Fz.oax—MBS. I. W. NICHOLSON, - New Jersey.
Lanr Assr. S'rsw.um—MBS. WM. SIMS, Kansas.

Executive committee-

D. WYATT AIKEN, - - South Carolina.
H. J AMES. ‘ ' - - Indiana.
W. G. WAYNE, - - - New York.

oflicers Michigan state Grange.

M.—C. G. LUCE, - - - Gilead.
O.—A. N. WOODBUFF, - - Watervliet.
L.——O. L. WHITNEY, - - - Mnskegon.
8.—S. A. TOOKER, - - - - Lansing!
A. S.—-A. E. GREEN, - - Far-mington.
C.—SALMON STEEL, - Manton, Wexford Co.
’l‘.—S. 3!‘. BROWN, - - - Schoolcraft.
Bno.—J. T. COBB, - - - Schoolcraft.
G. K.—ELIJAE BARTLETT, - - Dryden.
Cznss.—-Mas. A. S. STANNABD, - - Lowell.
Poxo1u.—Mns. E. D. PLATT, - - Ypsilanti.
FLORA.-M33. A N. WOODRUFF, Watervliet.
L. A. S.—Ms.s. A. E. G-BEEN, - Farmington.

Executive committee.

THOMAS MARS, Chairman, - Berries Center.
J. WEBSTER CHILDS, - - Y silanti.
F. M. HOLLOWAY, - - - illsdala.

J. Q. A. BURRINGTON. - - Tuscola.
WM. SATTERLEE, - - Birmingham.
THUS. F. MOORE, - - - - Adrian.
JOHN PORTER. - - Grand Ra ids.

C. G. LUCE, J. T. COBB, - - Ex-o cio.

General Deputy.

c. L. WHITNEY, - - - Muskegon.
State Business Agent.
-rnonxs mason, - — Chicago, 111.

Special Lecturers.

Thou. F.Moore,...... ....... ..Adris.n,Lenawee Co.
Goo.W,Woodward...........,..8helby,Owana Co.
M.L.Stsvens,...............Perry, Shiawassee Co.

Mrs. S. Stoele,............ ....Mmtnn, Wexiord Co

L. B..Brovn. ......... .....Bawsanvillo, Wayne Co.
A.ndrewCun boll, ..... .. psilanti, Washtenaw Co.
0l|Il.I.Mfi£lfi............. driamnsnawosco.

SCHOOLURAFT, MICH., APRIL 15, 1881.

dniieuiiumai Ewnimni.

A. C. GLIDDEN, -

- TPAW PAW.

THE FARMER'S WIFE.

Up with the birds in the early morning,
The dewdrop glows like a precious gem ;
Beautiful tints in the skies are dawning.
But she’s never a moment to look at them,
The men are wanting their breakfast early ;
She must not linger, she must not wait;
For words that are sharp and looks that are surly,
Are what men give them when meals are late.

Oh ! glorious colors the clouds are turning,
If she would but look over hills and trees ;

But here are the dishes. and here's the churning—
Those things must always yield to these.

The world is filled with the wine of beauty,
If she could but pause and drink it in;

But pleasure, she says, must wait for duty———
Neglected work is committed sin.

The day grows hot, and her hands grow weary-
Oh, for an hour to cool her head,
Out with the birds and winds so cheery I
But she must get dinner and bake her bread.
The busy men in the hay-field working,
If they saw her sitting with idle hand,
Would think her lazy and call it shirking.
And she never could make them understand.

They do not know that the heart within her
Hangers for beauty and things sublime ;

They only know that they want their dinner,
Plenty of it, and just “ on time."

And after the sweeping and churning and baking,
And dinner dishes are all put by,

She sits and sews, though her head is aching,
Till time for supper and chores draws nigh.

Her boys at school must look like others,
She says, as she patches their frocks and hose ;
For the world is quick to censure mothers
For the least neglect of their children’s clothes.
Her husband comes from the field of labor;
He gives no praise to his weary wife ;
She's done no more than has her neighbor-
’Tis the lot of all in country life.

But after the strife and weary tussle
With life is done, and she lies at rest,

The nation's brain and heart and muscle——
Her sons and daughters—shall call her blest.

And I think the sweetest io of Heaven,
The rarest bliss of etcrna. life,

And the fairest crown of all will be given
Unto the way-worn farmer's wife.

Seeding to Clover.

There is no part of the labor of the farm
that needs so much sound judgment, well
mixed with experience, and on which suc-
cess so much depends, as the sowing of
clover seed. It will not do to follow the
advice of any one literally, unless the soil
and conditions of soil are very similar, so
that the individual experience, as a guide to
follow, however successful that individual
may have been in his own operations, is of
no practical value to the general Spublic,
unless the conditions are all noted. And,
indeed, the most successful in seeding must
vary his methods to meet varying circum-
stances in seasons, conditions of soil, etc.

AMOUNT on sann.

According to a very careful computation
made at Cornell University, by government
standard weights, the number of seeds in a
bushel of clover is 1_5,l56,880. Allowing every
seed to grow, this would give for one peck to
the acre,87 seedsjto the square foot. One quart
to the acre is ten seeds to the square foot.
One bushel to ten acres is 34 seeds to the
square foot. But clover seeds do not all
germinate.

Prof. Beal, of our Agricultural College
has been making tests of seeds to determine
what percentage of seeds germinate, the
comparative value of light and dark colored
seeds. The experiment is a very useful one
to farmers, and we should be glad to give
it entire in the professor’s own words, but
can only give results, and omit methods.

Samples of clover seed were obtained from
45 different points in the State, and 50 seeds
of each were counted out and tested. As
will be surmised, the seeds grew on soils o_f
different character, and were harvested and
threshed in variable conditions. In two
lots of 50 seeds, 28 and 36 germinated——64
out of 100 seeds. These seeds were imper-
fect in appearance and light in weight.
From another place 19 and 26 seeds sprouted,
or 45 per cent. This last was the lowest
tested. One lot from the college farm ran
up to 98 per cent of living seeds. Several
others averaged 96 and 97 per cent. Some
seeds that looked quite dingy averaged 90
per cent. One sample that was left outln
an uncovered stack until late in February,
and grew on light sand, averaged 79 per cent
of good seeds.

The test shows farther the comparative
value of light and dark colored seeds. Fifty
seeds of each were taken, showing results as
follows:

College farm seeds germinated 49 dark, 41

light; Albion seeds germinated -18 dark, 42
light; Paw Paw seeds germinated 43 dark, 41
light.

Heretofore, in these columns we have
alluded to the fact that no definite knowl-
edge could be gained by one experiment, but
so far as this goes, it shows clearly that dark
colored seeds are best, and farther, that no
seed, so far as tested, however bright and
plump, will all of it germinate, so that no
computation as to the number of seeds to
the square foot in a given amount, can be
definitely fixed to make growing plants. It
is probably not safe to assume that more
than 80 per cent of clover seed will germi-
nate, so that the number of seeds to the
square foot given above should be reduced
one-fifth to approximate the number that
will germinate. A farther reduction should
be made, say five per cent for perfect seeds
that may “ fall on stoney places,” and fail
“because they have not depth of earth.”
This last per cent will vary according to the
preparation of the soil to receive the seed.
Should 75 per cent of the seed grow and
make plants, a bushel to ten acres will give
25 seeds to the square foot, an amount farm-
ers will generally be satisfied with. The
reason loss is often seen is due to the slip-
shod manner of sowing it. Many throw it
on the ground as though it was a parasite of
mother earth, and would grow where it
lodged, regardless of circumstances, some of
it will fall in cracks in the ground, and be
covered by the crumbling earth, but it needs
a vast amount of faith in the resources of
nature, when we look at the chances of
failure.

now AND wn EN T0 sow.

The greater part of the seeding in our
State is done on wheat in the spring, and
the great mistake is made by sowing too
late. Sow on the seed as early as possible
after the ground has settled, and can be
worked with a harrow. Harrow after sow-
ing, and follow with a roller. Have no
fear of frosts; that will not kill it. A
drought in May will, if not rooted at that
time. Don’t sow plaster with a. view of
supplementing any failure to sow early, or
negect in working the seed into the soil.
Sow the plaster to make living plants larger
—not to vitalize dying ones. In our opinion
plaster will not make more young plants to
the square foot, but it will make old ones
larger.

When clover seed is sown with any spring
crop, it is greatly benefitted by rolling. It
packs the earth about the seed, and its ger-
mination is hastened, and its hold of life is
greatly strengthened.

Continued failures on light sandy soils
can be made successful by top dressing with
a light coat of manure and harrowing the
clover seed in with it. This stimulates the
young plant until it can sustain itself by its
energy.

The plan of seeding in corn in August the
last time through has been practiced some-
what, and if it could be made uniformly
successful, would be very desirable, thus
obviating the necessity of an occasional
bare summer fallow. So many vicissitudes,
fatal to success are met at this time, that a
good stand of clover is very uncertain. The
looseness of the soil, coupled with continued
dry weather,’which allows the young root-
lets no hold upon the soil. The ravages of
the large brown grasshopper which eats the
plant as soon as it appears, all combine to
prevent success. If there are rains sufficient
immediately after harvest to saturate the
earth, clover, if sown then in corn, will
usually get such a start as to withstand quite
a severe drought later in the season, and
become too large to be affected by grass-
hoppers. Clover sown in the fall must have
a growth sufficiently strong to withstand
the effect of frost on the soil, otherwise it
will be pulled up by the roots, and become a
sad failure.

The clover plant is fast becoming the uni-
versal fertilizer. The loss of a “ catch.” as
it is called, is, in some instances, a calamity,
especially where cropping has been con-
tinuous, and the soil is reduced. This point
is too often reached, and the danger of losing
the clover is greatly enhanced. No greater
mistake can be made by farmers than to
reduce their fields by continuous cropping.
More time must be spent in reclaiming
them than it took to exhaust them, besides
the ever present danger of losing the clover
on such soils. Sow clover wisely and reap
bountifully.

Buying Fruit Trees.

There is a soft spot in almost every farm-
er‘s make-up, accustomed at some time to
a sudden rush of confidence to the head, the
consequent loss ofa large measure of faith
in humanity, and sundry ducats withal.
When the words heading this article are
suggested to him, he grows remarkably red
in the face, eyes his questioner suspiciously,
and bristles all over with a negative armor.
He may not be, and probably is not able to
furnish a list of fruits of any kind ripening
in sucession and tell their names and origin,
but he does know something of “Mexican
Everbearing Strawberres,” “ Curculio Proof
Plums,” or “ Blight Proof Pears” on a
French root, with a French name. He has
nursed some tree with a glowing expectancy
of its producing fruit like its prototype in
the big bottle, to be confronted with a
starved worm eaten seedling. He may have
purchased a new variety to complete his
list of choice fruit, and after waiting and
watching a few years, find it the commonest
variety in the market. This rascality is like
nothing else in his experience. He may be
cheated in buying or trading horses, but he
chews the cud of bitterness very philosoph-
ically, — mentally planning meanwhile
how he shall get even in the next venture.
But in this case, he is wholly impotent to
secure redress. He finds the “ agent” only
represented himself, and was entirely irre-
sponsible, and such a length of time has
elapsed that it is impossible to trace the evi-
dence, if there seemed a chance of gaining
anything by litigation.

The whole business of handling fruit trees
has got into bad odor by the unscrupulous
chicanery of irresponsible men. That we
now have honorable dealers who grow their
own stock, and are reliable. is beyond ques-
tion. In the whole business of selling fruit
trees in the State, many more cases of fair
dealing have been known than of dishones-
ty. Those came through a channel that is
yet open, and the exceptional cases are rare.
It is time now that the warfare against
the trade should cease, and with returning
confidence, the grounds of complaint will be
fewer and farther between. There will al-
ways be a certain percentage of mistakes.
and the careful nursery man cannot guard
against them all. The stock passes through
too many hands, from bud to scion, to the
delivered trees, to insure every label to be
true to name.

An order on any well established nursery-
man in the State, will be as sure of securing
what is called for, as the extent of his stock
and varieties will allow. In ordering a hill
of trees, it should be borne in mind that no
nurseryman keeps all the varieties in the
catalogues, and he should not be anathe-
mized for failing to furnish a particular vari-
ety, that perhaps has not been in stock for
the last ten years. New varieties are con-
tinually supplanting the old, and it is the
nurseryman’s business to keep up with the
times, and be posted in regard to the habits
of growth, etc., that may be suitable for the
locality from which the order comes. And
unless the person ordering trees is well
abreast of the times in pomologicsl matters,
some discretion should be allowed the nur-
sery man in filling the order. The stock is
grown in varieties to suit advanced ideas in
our State, and one who is not well up with
the times cannot make an order that will
satisfy even himself when the trees come
into bearing. More than one-half the orders
received at the nursery are more or less
faulty, in the selection of varieties and in
the number of each, showing a sad want of
knowledge that cannot be unlearned to cor-
rect the fault after the trees are growing.
There is not a peach orchard of five years
growth in the State that is up to the stand-
ard of the fruit growers’ ideas of to-day, in
its list of varieties. And what is true of the
peach orchards, is true, in a greater degree,
of the apple orchards, although the latter
can be top-grafted to remedy the defect,
while the peach trees must stand until they
die or are pulled out. This shows the im-
portance of a proper selection of varieties to
start with, and a knowledge of adaptation
to soil and climate, which the average far-
mer is unacquainted with, unless he has
made diligent inquiry among the older or-
chardists in his neighborhood, or of men
well posted in pomologioal matters. Those
who have not, or do not at once order trees
for spring setting, will be likely to have
their orders abridged or substituted, as we

learn from reliable sources that the stock of
trees of all varieties is far short of the wants
of the trade, and both nurserymen and deal-
ers are in a flurry of excitement to know
where the stock can be had. Nursery stock
of all kinds is probably as reasonable in
price as it can be grown for, and nothing
will be gained by delay, except it be to se-
cure varieties that are absorbed by nccepted
orders.

Wire and Picket Fence.

Editor of l'isz'tor.-—I havejust been read-
ing an article in your paper, written by J.
F. Gilchrist, in regard to building the wire
picket fence. In the first place, it should
be impressed upon the minds of those who
are going to build said fence, that it is very
important that it should be built right.

The article referred to gave a good descrip-
tion of the work, but omitted one very im-
portant point, the distance between posts,
which should not be more than ten or
twelve feet. The first fence built in this
neighborhood (about ten years ago), had
posts 16 feet apart, and the wires stapled
as described in the article referred to. The
vibrating of the fence broke many of the
wires at the staples. We have discarded
the staples, and now weave the pickets in,
paying no attention to the posts, only to
have a picket come against each one. Nail
the bottom of the picket to the poet and
nail, or which is better, wire the top by
placing a wire around the top wires and the
post. Care should be taken to keep the same
wire on top all the way, which is easily
done by turning the blocks half way around,
and then back again. Keep the wires
stretched taut. J. H. B.

Emvnmsaunc. Apr. ii, 188].

More About the Wire Picket Fence.

UNADILLA, l\Iich., Mar. 23, 1881.

Bro. Cobb .--—I have read with much satis-
faction Bro. J. F. Gilchrist’s article in the
VISITOR on fencing. I think he has got
hold of the right fence, but he has put the
price of wire too high. Instead of 22; cents
a rod, I can furnish good charcoal wire for
45 cents a pound, or 18 cents a rod. I buy
it by the carload, right from the manufac-
turers.

In this part of the county, we get our
slats sawed out, using any kind of timber,
soft or hard, including tamarack and poplar.
No man in this vicinity builds any other
kind of new fence. We get men who have
an engine for threshing, to saw the slats.
The charge for soft wood is $2.50 per M,
and $3.00 for hard wood. Three hundred
slats will make 100 rods of fence. Few far-
mers are so destitute of timber that they
can’t find something that will do for slats.

Bro. Gilchrist’s plan of stretching the
wire may suit him, but I think I have
a much better way. I use a double tackle
of block with pulley attached to a jack made
three poles,—-two eight feet long, with brace
pole twelve feet long. Stake this tothe
ground solid; with a clevls fasten one tackle
block to this brace leg, and the other block
to the evener to which the four wires are
attached. With this pulley arrangement
you can keep an even tension to the wires.
The first thing I do after setting posts
is to mark the place where the wire should
be attached. This I do with a slat notched
seven inches from the top, and nine inches
from the bottom. To keep the wire in
place, I use a spike driven in on the mark.
If the wire runs too high, put it under the
spike, if too low, put the wire over. The
Bro’s plan for strething wire we do not
think a good one, as the stone boat will
come up with a jerk, and leave the wire
loose. The tension will not be uniform.

The first two years I built this fence I
put up seven miles each year.

I shall be glad to answer any enquiries as
to manner of, building, or any other ques-
tions that may be asked about this kind of
fence.

The hardware men here tried to drive me
out of the trade in wire. I first paid them
10 cents a pound for wire. Now I am ready
to supply any of my brother farmers with
good wire at four and one-half cents per
pound. Address me at Unadilla, Livings-
ton Co., Mich. Fraternally,

JOSEPH Horxms.

 

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C. L. W'r5trxr.r, Mnsxncox.

P.CKlNGS BY THE WAY, No. 26.

March the 8th found us still in \Vood-
bridge. At 10 A. M., a private meeting of
the Grange was held at the hall near the
residence of Bro. A. Hewitt. Instruction
was given in the unwritten work of the Or-
der, and its beautiful lessons illustrated.
The hall is small and must soon be replaced

I by a larger one if they have many classes of

nine, as that number of petitions were pre-
sented the next meeting after our visit. At
a late hour in the afternoon, we started for
our next point,

CAMBRIA GRANGE.

Our audience had been waiting some time
when we reached the school house where
we were to speak. Singing had passed the
time while waiting, pleasantly and profita-
bly. The singing under the direction of
Byron Adams was excellent, and the more
of such in a good Grange, the better.

After the public meeting, we repaired to
the home of Bro. and Sister J. B. Harris,
and spent the night. On the following day
a private meeting of this Grange was held
in their hall near Bro. Harris’ house. But
few were out, yet that few did their duty
faithfully. This Grange had just bought a
couple barrels of sugar of Montgomery,
\Vard & Co., Chicago. and made quite a
handsome saving. The sugar was excel-
lent, if our taste is good. A large number
of subscriptions were received for the Vis-
rron. Bro M. \Villetts took us over to Bro.
L. l‘ta.nier's in time for the meeting of

SOUTH JEFFERSON.

This meeting was held in the school
house near Bro. Ranier’s. There was a very
fair gathering, not quite as large as the pre-
vious three evenings; yet we think some
went home thinking that even the farmer
has something to do, and must prepare him-
self for his duties. Bro. Ranier’s home is a
pleasant one, with a large, well tilled farm
adjacent, all of which has been the result of
individual effort and perseverance. On Fri-
day, the 11th, Bro. Hart took us to our next

place,
LICKLY CORNERS.

Froni some cause the meeting had not
been well advertised here, yet quite a num-
ber assembled at the hall, to whom we
spoke for an hour. Bro. John B. Lickly,
the Master, was our host here, and we had
time to visit his sugar bush, and had our
first new maple sugar.

On the following morning, we rode to
Hudson in the teeth of a pitiless storm, and
thence on the’ cars to Nottawa, where llro.
VViii. B. Langley met us, and taking us
home with him cared for us until Monday,
Meantime, we made a short
visit to l~‘.ro. and Sister Yanney’s pleasant
home. Sister Mary A. Yanney, the Secre-
tary of Centerville Grange, showed us her
Secretary's books. They were neatly kept,
and gave full detail of the proceedings and
are a credit to both the Secretary and the
Grange she makes records for.

COLON.

Bro. Langley knows the way to almost any
place in St. Joseph county, and so to-day
he was our pilot to Colon. At Bro. Thos.
(?uddy’s, near Mendon, we found our din-
ner. A large audience greeted us at Colon.
Patrons from Burr Oak, Leonidas, and
Sherwood, were there and assisted very
much in making the meeting a success. At
the close of the day meeting, it was agreed
to meet in the evening and reorganize Colon
Grange, No. 2115, which had been resting
nearly four years. Tea was taken at the
pleasant home of Bro. Wm. H. Carth, and
then returning to the hall, we took pleasure
in reorganizing this Grange. The ofiicers
were duly elected and installed, and the
new Grange thus duly equipped for labor,
had its charter restored, and was instructed
in the unwritten work-31 members, with
Bro.VVm. H. Castle, Master, and a good terri-
tory of young and middle aged people, this
Grange must thrive. At a late hour, we
reached the home of Bro. Langley for the
night.

MOORE PARK.

Vilith the same guide as yesterday, we
started for the northern part of the county.
Enroute we passed through the jurisdiction
of Riverside Grange, and took a look at its
hall near the residence of Bro. Shock. This
Grange has been doing quite a business in
the way of co-operation in buying its goods
and supplies. Bro. S. is the agent, and has
a store-room adjacent the hall. This Bro-
ther has had a large experience in manu-
facturing molasses from the sorghum and
amber cane, and in making apple jelly.
He has a sugar mill and other apparatus.

Very bad roads, from the great amount of
surface, water prevented a large meeting at
Moore Park, yet we hope that some good
was done. After meeting we went home
with Bro. and Sister Miller and spent the
night. Bro. Miller is the Master of the
Grange. On the following morning, Bro.
Langley left us at the depot on his way
home. Many thanks for your efforts in be-
half of our noble Order, Bro. L. We dined
at Schoolcraft. Spent the night at Grand
Rapids, enroute for Clear Lake.

MONTCALM COUNTY.
An early breakfast on the 17th, and we

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soon reacted lonia; changed for Fenwick,
at which place Bro. Soule met us at the
train and took us home in a cutter. Last
week on wheels,—this on runners, and the
sleighing here was quite good. Soon the
Worthy Master of Montcalm Pomona
Grange came and was a fellow guest at din-
ner at Bro. and Sister Soule’s.

Public meeting was held by the Pomona
Grange in the afternoon, which was quite
well attended. V\'orthy Iii-aster Shoemaker
presided. A private meeting for instruction
was held in the evening.

The morning of the lstli was clear and
cold, and we started for home by way of Big
Rapids, reaching home in the evening,——to
be there during a most fearful snow storm,
which gave on Saturday, the 19th, nearly
two feet of snow upon a level at this place.

ADA GRANGE.

V\"e left home again on the 23rd, to be with
the Kent County Grange, meeting with Ada
Grange, No. 295. Many well-known Pa-
trons came upon the train at‘Grand llapids,
among whom were Bros. Porter, Adairis,
and Mills, and Sister Porter, enroute for the
meeting. From the depot at Ada, where
Bros. Holt, Rice, and others met us, we had
alternate snow banks and mud for two miles
to the hall. A meeting of the Pomona
Grange was held in the afternoon, but from
bad roads and want of notice, the attendance
was not as large as usual. \Vorthy Master
Hine presided. After tea, which we had at
Bro. Rice's near by, a large audience gath-
ered for a public meeting, and gave good at-
tention to the discussion of the questions
which farmers should be more familiar with
than they are. Bro. and Sister Hoag, and
others from Vergennes Grange, were pres-

en t.
The meeting over, we rode home with Bro.

M. B. Hines to Lowell, who in the tempor-
ary absence of his wife tries to keep his own
home. He did well for one of so little experi-
ence. He gave us an early breakfast, and
we took the train for our next appointment,
which was in
SANILAC COUNTY,

Where we spent the remainder of the week
and Monday of the next in looking up the
interests of the Order. VVe had a fine meet-
ing at Rural Grange, and find Charity
Grange doing good work. There is a good
prospect of astrong revival of interest in
this county, and a permanent Grange
growth. \Ve shall visit the county again,
and Huron and St. Clair, when the state of
the roads will permit.

Grange Music.

“GLAD ECHOES FROM THE G1-.iAl\'Gl-J,” is
the title of the new Grange Song Book from
Ohio. VVe thank Secretary Smith for send-
ing it to us, as we think he must have
sent it..

We like it. Not because it is now, for it is
not wholly so, but because it is larger than
the “ Patrons’ Song Book,”and because it
has some new and very appropriate pieces,
the music of which has been contributed
by James L. Orr, the editor of the book.
His suggestions to choristers are very good,
and should be heeded. TVs are glad that the
editor has retained some of the good old
pieces of the “ Patrons’ Song Book,” and re-
gret that he did not retain more of them, es-
pecially some of the degree songs, and
“Come, Join the Grange,” “ Matrons’
Song,” “ The Happy Mystic Grange,” and
others. Granges having the “Patrons’
Song Book,” will do well to retain it and
add “Glad Echoes” to it. We still love to
hear many of the songs of the old “Songs
for the Grange," and hope that the Execu-
tive Committee of the National Grange will
take all the old books, and all the new
books, all they can borrow or buy, old or
new, and compile a good-sized volume,
with music appropriate for opening and
closing Granges, not one, but many selec-
tions for each ; then music for degree work,
several selections for each degree, including
the -5th; music for installation and dedica-
tion exercises; also for funerals, for the
planting of memorial trees, for decoration
days. for aniversaries of all kinds, for open-
ing and closing public meetings, and for
children's meetings. W'e plead for the con-
tinuance of the hymns of a devotional na-
ture that are not sectarian, for the good old
Obligation Song on page 11 of the old “Songs
for the Grange.” Gentlemen of the Com-
mittee, give us a large book, full of good
and appropriate music, well crussifled. Give
us music, and plenty of it, for every occa-
sion at which the Order may need to use it.

Bro. Henley James, Marion, Grant Co.,
Ind., chairman of the Executive Committee,
N. G., asks that all members of the Order
having choice songs, will send the same to
his address. Any suggestions will be cheer-
fully receieved by the Committee.

But Patrons, let us use well what we
have. Practice! practicell practice!!! is
much needed almost everywhere. Get to-
gether outside of Grange meetings, and dili-
gently practice to become perfect in what
music we have. Vvhen you are tohave a.
public meeting, be sure to have singing
practice beforehand. No Grange should
be without singing on any occasion. No
degree can be well conferred without apro-
priate music. Success here, as elsewhere,
can be best attained by organized, persistent
effort.

To TEN names not members of the Order,
we will send the Vrsrron three months for

31.00.

v vicinity? that is to my wife and me an es- .,

’ equally so to all 2’

v Grandville, Mich. Our membership is on

as-ease- 

How They Prize the Grange. 

A letter of inquiry was written to a person i
in Michigan recently, by a Patron of anoth— {
er State, inquiring for farm property, as the l
writer wished to settle in Michigan. He 

says, “Have you a good Grange in yourl

1
sential, and we do not wish to locate where V
we cannot have the social and intellectual l
privileges of a good Grange.” A word to!
the wise is ample. If the Grange is so valu- 
able to one farmer, why may it not be
You must enjoy the;-te
privileges to prize them. Those who have
never known the benefits ofa Grange can-
not tell how great they are. Let every far-
mer, then, join 13. Grange. Have one organ-
ized ifyou have none near you, and remem-
ber that the Grange is what its members
make it. It is not only the privilege and
right of every farmer and his family to join
a Grange, but it is a duty they owe them-
selves, their cliildreii, their calling, their
country, and mankind.

Progressing.

PAL.\fYl{A Grange, So. 2123, Lenawee Co.,
is moving in the right direction. They
have contracted for the building ofa hall,
to be done in September next. Have a class
of six or eight candidates, on the way to pre-

fllguinmunitaliunii.

ithe duty in the most sati-factory inariiier

ferment. Remember, all who read this,
that “success in a good cause can only be
gained by perseverance.”

. Information Wanted.

THE Secretary of\Vashingtonville Grange
34, of Pennsylvania, writes that Augustus
Kniss came to Michigan in the spring of
1880, to work in a saw mill, and has not
been heard from since. The friends of Mr.
Kniss are very anxious to hear from him
and his whereabouts. Information address-
ed to Lecturer C. L. \Vhitney, Muskegon,
will be gladly forwarded to the inquiring
friends. Patrons in Muskegon, Clare, and
all lumber counties, will please make in-
quiries.

VVINTER persists in sitting a long time in
the lap of spring this year, especially along
the N. \V. shore of Lake Michigan. At
Muskegon, the snow on April 4th is full 2 ft.
deep in the woods. Many travel upon run-
ners yet, and will attend town meeting,
using a sleigh to go with. Snow fell March
21st and April 2nd. The skating rinkin the
city of M— was in excellent condition on
the evening of April 2nd, and a grand cou-
cert was then given. All skated as if it was
their last slide. It may warm up with the
friction of the spring election.

\Vii:-JN you clean house,——as all readers of
the GRANGE Visiron do,—should you come
across any of Nos. 3, 9, or 10 of the Bryant
Fund Publications sent out at the organiza-
tion of the Granges in this State and eke-
where, please save and send to C. L. \Vhit-
ney, Muskegon, Mich., and receive a pack-
age of choice flower and vegetable seeds for
your trouble. Copies of the proceedings of
the ‘National Grange for 1873, (5th session,
also desired.

Los'rl a post-ofiice key, for a Yale lock.
It was marked “P 35,” and had a small
piece of wire in the central ring. I must
have dropped it at some place visited be-
tween Feb. 23rd and March 18th. Any one
finding such a key will confer a favor by
sending it to its owner, C. L. ‘Whitney,
Muskegon, Mich.

700,000,001) feet, is the log crop secured by
Muskegon lumbermen this whiter, and they
are still at it, with the prospect good for
some time. V-Vho are planting for posterity ?

A Fortunate Grange.

Worthy Bro. Cobb .--—I am requested to
send you the following with a request that
it be published in the VISITOR :

WHEREAS, Alpine Grange, No. 348, P. of
H., was, on the 26th of January the recipi-
ent of avery fine portrait of the Master of the
National Grange, beautifully framed and
ready for hanging in their half. This done, it
seemed as if the Worthy Master were indeed
present and looking down upon our labors
with an approving smile. It was presented
by the Agricult-zoral World,as you well know,
to the. Grange that forwarded the largest
number of Subscribers in a given length of
time, ours being the successful Grange;
Therefore,

Resolved, That the thanks of this Grange
are due and are heartily tendered to Bro.
Carrol for this most generous gift, and in
return we wish him success in his efforts to
make al’armers’journal,an i hope he may live
to see the Agricultural World admired by
its subscribers as the subject of the portrait
is by the Patrons of Michigan.

All of which is respectfully submitted by

F. E. llfiilman,
K. J. BRO\VN,
BETSY Bnowzv,
Committee.
H. A. GREENLEY, Sec’y.

Birch Run Grange, No. 574

Is yet alive and is destined to live." We are
having good meetings and well attended,
and we are trying to get up an order for a
carload of plaster from Day & Taylor,

the increase, and I think all our members
are good ones, and love to read the VISITOR.

P. H. Gonnrznxnnrcnrna.

To lite Patrons oi Husbandry.

By the action of the National Grange, at
the Fourteenth Annual Session, it was made
the duty of the Executive Committee of the
National Grange to revise and have publish-
ed a song book for the use of the Order.
The Comniittee being desirous to discharge

possible, would esteem it a favor if members
willaid them in their work by sending to
me, such clioice son-',-,s as may be in their
posession, either original or :-selected, as
are suitable for such a. book, and al o
copi.-s of song books used by Gi'auge.~:, other
than those published by the Natiozial
Grange. lli;.\'i.i-iv JAM
(Jhiirmau l~3xecutiveC )lIl. N. G.
Marion, lilll.

The State University and the Agricultural College.

Jill‘. J. T. Cobb.-—l see in the VISITOR. of
M irch 13th, a cmiitn iiii.,-utioii from “Uncle
Si" which emhozlies seiitiiiients that are, it
seems to me, too C.)n).!‘[1nll iimoig the people
of Micliigan. Speakiiig of"iaxes” he asks
the farniers and mecliaiiics if they think it
right that they should be taxed “to support
rich men's sons at the University.” I pre-
sume that “Uncle Si" is not opposed to edu-
cation in general, at any rate I will assume
such to be the case. Now he may think
that the State should not educate doctors,
lawyers, etc., any morethan mechanics and
farmers, and I grant that generally speaking
it should not favor one class of people more
than another. but I would remind him that
the professional schools are all sell’-supporting
that i~:, they pay the running expenses, not
including of course such expense as buildings;
and on the other hand I. would point to the
Agricultural College, which is of course a
farmei-.3’ school and which receives this year
the sum of $o'6,000.

The literary department of the Univcrslt_v
calls for considerable extra help, and grant;
that this sum be ever so great, who should
complain, the rich or the poor‘? Supposing
fora moment that the “rich men's sons"
do constitute the students at Ann Arbor, do
not the rich men pay taxes ‘3 and is not the
same chance offered to the son ofa mechanic
who pays no taxes that there is to the son of
a millionaire‘? Thousands of these “rich
men” pay taxes to the University that would
pay ten times the extra expense of sending
their sons to Yale or Harvard.

lot the students at Ann Arbor are not
“rich me.n‘s sons” (I speak from personal
knowledge at the University), and a large
portion of them are farmers’ sons.

Now, how many farmers could afl'or<l to
send their sons to Yale or Harvard '3 The
annual expenses of an economical student
at Harvard are from a thousand to fifteen
hundren dollars, while at Ann Arbor three-
fourths of the students spend less than three
hundred dollars.

Of course by no means all farmers send
sons or daughters to the University but it is
a question of “the greatest good to the
greatest number," and to s'nut oil'the means
of a complete education to the poorer classes
is the quickest way to establish the most
dangerous kind of an aristocracy.

I can not claim a place in your columns as

a “Patron,” but as a Psctron’.-a son and as a .

reader of your paper for several years,I make
bold to encroach on your space this week.
Youxo FA mum.
VVaslitenaw Co., March 28.
How Much Interest Shall the Farmer Take In
Politics?

[The following is a synopsis of a discus-
sion by Orion Grange, No. :2-59, at a meeting
held March 26th, 1881: “How much inter-
est shall the farmer take in politics‘? ”]

Bro. VVm. S. Vorhees is of the opinion
that farmers should take as much interest
in politics as any class of people. But it is a
fact, that they neglect politics; they ought
to take a more active part in our elections,
and see that none but honest and capable
men are elected to oflice.

C. K. Carpenter thinks that farmers neg-
lect politics too much, and one reason is,
that they can see more money in staying at
home, and working on the farm; and an-
other reason is, that they have become so
disgusted with the trickery and corruption
practiced by politicians, t-‘cat they would
rather pay the exorbitant taxes, than to mix
in politics. He thinks that our cities and
villages control politics, and that politicians
so manage as to compel the farmer to pay
heavy taxes to support the politicians, and
build up our cities and villages. Farmers
are better qualified to make nominations for
office than are politicians, and should at-
tend caucuses and primary meetings, and
see that none but honest and capable men
are nominated for office.

J. P. Coon thinks that farmers should not
seek office not become politicians, but that
they have more interest in politics than any
other class of people, and that it is all impor-
tant that the farmer should take an active
interest in politics, and see that none but
good and reliable men are nomina.ted,and
elected to office.

P. T. Butler thinks it is to every farmer’s
interest to investigate politics, and thor-

oughly inform himself on the political issues

P APRIL 15TH, 1881.

of the day. Look after the doings of our
legislators; go to primary meetings, see
that none but good men are nominated for
office; go to eleclions, and see that they are
elscted.

C. S. Vorhees is of the opinion that it is
every man’s duty to become so far interested
in politics, as to attend primary meetings
and elections, and see that none but good
men are nominated, and elected; every far-
mer should look after his political interest,
and vote from principle, irrespective of
party.

\Vni. Anderson has held oflicc. A noni-
inatioii for olli. c, in a caiiciis, in most in-
stances, is equivalent to an election. Un-
qualified men i'requently get oiiice through
political rings, from farmers’ neglecting to
attend primary meetings; and it is every
fai'nier's duty, right, and privilege, to be-
come so far interested in politics, as to see
that none but holiest and capable men are
elected to ollice.

A. B. Frost says that every American cit-
izen and t'.iriiier should investigate politics,
and inform himself on political economy
and civil government. He should learn
how political parties are made up, and run.
That there is corruption in politics, is evi-
dent; how shall we remedy the evil‘? The
primary meeting is the place to commence.
The farmer should discuss politics privately,
and inform themselves, so that they can
vote intelligently and understaudingly, irre-
spective of party.

W. M. it. Clark has been highly enter-
tained by the discussion, and thinks that
unless farmers take more interest in politics,
that the iiionied corporations will soon con-
trol the political interest of the country.
The few who attend caucuses virtually con-
trol and elect our oiiiccrs, under the interest
and control of political rings; but he hopes
that through the influence of the Grange,
farmers will see the necessity of their taking
a more active part in politics.

11. Andrews said that he had become so
disgusted with politics, that when he moved
to Michigan 12 years ago, he decided not
to take an active interest in politics; but he
sees the necessity of a reform in politics,
and when the farmers are ready to unite,
and to effect a reformation, he will be ready
to join with them.

L. B. Hemingway is of the opinion that
our cities and villages control politics, and
that without them, the farmers could main-
taiu an honest and economical government.
He would not allow a person to vote un-
less he paid taxes.

\Vorthy Chaplain Rev. J. St. Johns fully
coincides with what has been said, and be-
lievcs that farmers should take more inter-
est in politics. HIRAM A.\'ni<i:ws,

Secretary.

Orimi Grange, No. ‘.2:'i‘J.

Our Social Advantages.

[Tile following was delivered by John I4‘.
Harvey, Overseer Delhi Grange, No 322].

W orth g .-l[a.sz'<'.~r, liroi/urr and Sister Patrons
Of Ilusbmidry .'——As it is always rul-cable for
those placed in re,-ponsible positions to try
to fill those positions for the best good to all
concerned, and as we cannot expect ofothers
thzt which we are not willing or able :0 ac-
complish ourselves, therefore it necessar-
ily brings npon the officers of this Grange
the duty of setting an example for others of
our members to follow.

The subject which has been given to us by
our W'ortliy Lecturer is, “How can we ad-
vance the social advantages of the Order to
greater usefulness to members of the Order."
I‘he subject, in my mind, is of the. greatest
importance, one which it would be well for
every member of the_Order to weigh well.
In the first place do we always do by other
members of our Order as we would have
them do by us; do we consult their feelings
and know that what we say is not some-
times rather harrowing to their feelings? It
is always right for us to be plain spoken in
all our talk, never holding back anything
which ought to be said for the good of our-
selves or any other member of the Order, but
we should always, if we have advice or re-
primand to give, give it in such a spirit or in
vmrds which we ourselves would be willing
to have given us, and take it as necessary
for our own good. Such a course taken by
us in our language to each other, it seems to
me can have no other effect. than to produce
ii brotherly feeling of mutual benefit to all.

There are many other ways that, in 8 so-
cial way,we may advance the interest of our
Order among those outside of the gates. In
the first place deal with those outside as you
would with brothers. Teach them to look
upon us Patrons as practicing what we
preach. Always speak well ofevery member
of our Order (and by the way if we do as we
would be done by, we could readily do it,)
to all out side the gates; make them think
and see that we show such respect and
brotherly love for one another that it would
be well for them to unite with us. and we
shall soon have additions to our numbers.
Then when we one have them inside the
gates make our meetings so interesting by
reading, speaking, music and social con-
versatioen, that they will think and even say
to others that they cannot afford to stay
away from our meetings. Then will they be
so interested that they will be with us and
take part in our doings, and going forth,
spread the news to those still outside the
Grange of whats wonderful work the Grange


 
   
 

       

     
  
     
     
      

 

APRIL‘ 15TH, 1881.

‘ME   @ReAi‘l@,E?7E§E.”E.@..R

is doing for its members in a social, moral.
and educational way.
There can butlittle benefit accrue to any
member who comes here from one end of
the year to the other and never advances one
idea for the good of the Order morally, social-
ly, intellect-ually or for its wellbeing in any
way. I for one cannot see what good such
a member can derive from it. If I be-
longed to the Grange for the social part only
I should have to talk, but I could meet
friends on the street or elsewhere for social
conversation and save the expense and
trouble of belonging to the Grange. Now.
Brothers and Sisters, this is Lot all I belong
to this Order for. Here I find opportunity
to learn something which will benefit me
hereafter, and we make a great mistake if
we even think anything we can say or write
will not interest some one. It surely will ;
there is no talk or essay so tame but what
there are some ideas advanced which will
form a foundation for thoughtand argument
of benefit and practical worth to us all.
There is always a moral to things which to
some of us may appear very foolish and sim-
ple, but when we look at it in the right way
we see something which may benefit us.
Now, we should all feel an interest in our
Order to such an extent that we can hardly
hide the time for us to get up and advance
our ideas.

Our ideas should always be given in such
aspirit that they will be well received by
all, never showing any ill will nor ill feel-
ing towards any one either outside or inside
the Order. Such a course, if I am not mis-
taken, will lead us to an advanced position
among all other Granges and to prosperity
and happiness among ourselves, and will
certainly show our cause to be prospering
to those who are watching for our downfall.
I feel when I get to thinking upon this sub-
ject a sort of inspiration telling me that the
time will come when farmers and laborers,
men and women, will look at it as I do, and
I hope it will not be far distant when we
can say that:

"Men speak and dream with keen delight,
Of some sure coming better day.
To gain the happy golden height,
All madly press the crowded way.
The world grows old and young by turns,
But human hops unchanging burns.
All is not vain illusion; No
Mere fancy sprung from error's brain,
Too well proclarrries the life we know
A higher life shall man attain.
And what those inward voices say,
Shall ne'er the hopeful soul betray.”

And now, Brothers and Sisters, this Order
may be made all we dream of its being, if
we only press forward. Let our motto be, On-
ward and Upward ; neverturn backward ; let
no feeling enter our hearts that we shall fail
in our attempt to make this Order all that
our grand Declaration proclaims as its noble
purpose, and make our Grange,—yea, our
Grange, No. 322, of Delhi, the model Grange
of the State. _

We must not feel that we are not as smart
or as good as others, but endeavor to so edu-
cate ourselves up to the standard of true
manhood, that we may claim and justly a
position in the highest ranks of society.

JOHN F. HARVEY, Overseer.

Delhi Grange, No. 322.

 

Secret of Success.

It is decreed that I write an essay, and

that the subject shall be the’ “Secret of
Now if the W. L. had only in-
dicated in what direction he wishes me to
make my feeble attempt at writing upon a
given subject, that has as many branches of
thought as have the points of compass, I

Success.”

would be more at ease, but, as it were, I am
in a wilderness of thought, surrounded by

strong facts as well as fancies, which are
hard to present in their true light, not as
numerous and varied as the beauties of
nature, not so numerous as many may
suppose; but on the contrary, the general

principles are few and simple, and vary

only in detail when different branches of

this subiect are considered.

Here again I almost shrink the responsi-
biiity of giving “Secret of Success” to my
brothers and sisters so far advanced in years
—so much riper in experience, and so much

higher in the scale of success in life.

But I am spurred on by the thought that

I am executing one of the principles of suc

cess by performing promptly the duties
properly assigned me, that I may step by

step gain as near as possible the topmos

round in the ladder of life, where it is said

there is plenty of room.
Industry and economy in their broades

sense are absolutely necessary to success in
He who, by
some incident in life, has been elevated

all laudable undertakings.

among his fellow men soon falls, withou
industry and economy.

Daniel VVebster, on receiving his diploma
where he graduated, in

at Dartmouth,
the presence of some of his companion

deliberately tore it up, with the remark,
“My industry may make me a great man,

but this miserable parchment cannot.”

Perseverance is the main stay in life. To
hold on and hold out to the end in the chief
If the race could be'won by a
would wear the blue
ribbon, but they are short winded and

matter.

spurt, thousands

short sighted, and give up after the firs

trial. They begin with flying and end in
crawling. When it comes to real shoulder
If the apples
do not fall at the first shake of the tree,

work, many take to jibbing.

your hasty folks are too lazy to bring

ladder, or in too much of a hurry to wait
till the fruit is ripe enough to fall. The
hasty and impulsive man is too much like
the Irishman’s sauce- pan, which had many
good points above but it had no bottom.

\Ve ought not be put out of heart by difli-
culties. They are sent purposely to try the
stuff‘ we are made of, and they do us good,
although not pleasing at the time.

There is a reason why there are bones in
our meat, stones in our land, and weeds in
our fields.

A world where everything was easy,
would be a nursery for babes, but not at all
a fit place for man. Celery is not sweet till
it has felt a frost, and a man does not come
to his perfection till disappointment has
droppetkheavily upon him.

It just occurs to me from a faint recollec- 3‘
tion of a remark made by our VV. L. not

long since, that in giving me this subject he

intended I should consider it from a finan-

cial point of view. As this paper is already

getting long, I will say but a few words up

on this branch. I will first quote a line

from Dr. Franklin, ‘(If you would have
your business done, go, if not, send.”

The above line is so full of meaning that
nothing more need be said upon that point.

Never hire done that which you can do
yourself‘, but if you must hire, good help is
more profitable than cheap.

“A laborer is worthy of his hire.” Pay a
fair price, and then demand that the labor
shall be well performed. Do not forget the
“pay as you go” principle, and live as near
to it as you can; but ifyou must run in debt
have a thorough understanding with your
creditors, and should any thing happen that
you cannot meet your payments when due,
go and explain mal.ter.~1. and nine times in
ten all will be well.

Keep your word good, and your credit
will take care ofitself.

Never hastily engage in new and untried
enterprises, but carefully study all sides of
every question, and invest only in propor-
tion to the probabilities instead of possibili-
ties. Use brain and muscle together, but
brain first. “ The pen is mightier than the
sword.” Deep and earnest thought avail-
eth much, but little can be expected of mere
brute force; we see almost daily illustrations
of this.

It is not what a man cats that makes him
fat, but what he digests, neither is it what a
man earns that makes him rich, but what

he saves.
In a word: Be sure you are right, then go
ahead. .l. C. GOUIAD.

Paw PAW, March, 1881.

Shall We be Dilatory?

I believe the Order. Patrons of Husbandry,
to be a great and good institution, capable of
bestowing great and immeasurable benefits
upon its fraternity. In order to bestow
these blessings it must be carried out in its
highest and best conceptions. As the growth
of everything pertaining to this life comes
from small beginnings, our Order shall and
can be no exception to the rule. Small
leaks sinklarge ships; small failures ham-
per our Grange. One of the smallest, most
universal. the easiest, and yet the last to
be remedied is the habit of being late at the
usual time of the meeting.
fn my experience in Granges I have ob-
served that no one thing so much tends to
destroy the interest, and consequently the
pleasure and profit of its sessions, as this.
The Worthy Master may come in due sea-
son, open the doors, build a fire, walk about
the rooms, perhaps for the twentieth time;
pushing a table a little farther one way, and
a bench a little further the other; a chair in
another corner; scan the pictures to see if
they are all right; stir up the waning fire;
get more wood ; try the Secretary's drawer,
for the Secretary is not always early, if may
be it is unlocked——if so, the gavil would no
doubt whip out and “ call up” in his first
uneasy impulse. Perhaps he goes on the
street, and from one to another place of
business to see, if possibly, he has a little
business he can accomplish ; keeping his
eye nervously on any Brother he may
chance to see, feeling that time is passing.
Fifteen, twenty, perhaps sixty minutes
- have gone, and only half enough to form a
quorum have gladdened his eyes. . .
At last the meeting is called, a few are
t there, a few come after the gates are closed,
and the consciousness of being direlict in
duty covers the meeting like a cloud for
t many minutes.
At last one and another begins to revive
in ardor, business is dispatched, suggestions
for the good of the Order come in thick and
la fast. But time makes it imperative to close
the “ labors of the day,” and each one pres-
ent leaves with‘au unsatisfactory feeling of
having only half enjoyed a privilege within
s their reach, pondering the question of how
to make our sessions more profitable.
What preacher would wait a moment for
an audience after the time appointed for
opening the services had arrived‘? What
confusion would ensue were preacher and
people to follow the example of many
Granges! When the bell rings, who ex-
pects the teacher to await his pupils’ arrival
t at their leisure, or what parent does not
teach the child that to be tardy at school is
to be in fault? What man when he has
paid for 9. lecture does not arrive in due

' task.”

timetoobtain value received? Are other

[-
their own interests, found on other purposes {
intent when.a meeting of their organization l
has been appointed? 
VVho can reasonably expect to make the 3
meetings of Grange meet the requirements 
for which they are intended and of which ;
they could and should be capable? “he of
our opponents shall look with any appre-
hension on the self assertion of the Order of I
Patrons of Husbandry if they themselvesf
show no enthusiasm or recognize rroimpera-
tiveness in the calls and duties of their
Order ?

There is probably not one in a hundred

will not interfere with the meetings of the
Order. Let Patrons then become patterns
of punctuality, order and confidence in our
undertaking. Let not the finger be pointed
at us, saying, “ These farmers have entered
upon a great work, but are not equal to the
To every Patron in the land we
would make the appeal—Brothers and Sis-
te,rs,be ever in attendance upon the meetings
of your Order, bring with you thoughts
which you have matured since last you met,
come early that you may have time to ven-
tilate them. Be so punctually on time that
your Gatevlieeper shall be the first to forget
the manner of getting in through the closed
gates, and except in very imperative occa-
sions, never disturb a session by ingress or
egress.

There are in every organization persons
with the proverbial three hands, one a little
behind hand, but most of you can, and we
trust will be promptly on time, and be well
paid for the effort. \Vhen once the habit is
firmly established in your meetings of
promptly opening on time, you will find
many ways of filling the sessions with busi-
ness, wit, humor and intellect, will carry
away with you food for reflection and profit
which will make your lives better and
happier.

Then by the slow growth of might and
right our Order will rise to the majesty of
which it might be capable, and its adher-
ents stand politically, socially, morally, and
financially with the best and first in the
land. CONFRLJRI-1.
Galesburg, Mich.

Children's Grange.

Brothers and Sisters, Patrons and Friends
of our beautiful Order, I think we as Patrons
should do something for our children, those
who are too young to join our Order. \Ve
should organize a Children’s Grange, where
we can educate them morally, mentally,
and socially, and moreover instill into
their minds more thoroughly the principles
of the Grange. Let us bring them up as
Patrons, even from their infancy, so that it
may become as second nature to them. Let
us teach them that a successful farmer and
good Patron is as great a nobleman as the
king on his throne, and educate them to
love the pursuits of agriculture. To do this
successfully we must organize a Grange for
them, in which they may all become mem-
bers, from the least to the greatest. We
should have stated times for them to meet,
and as many of .us as can should meet
with them, and help them along. They
should have oflicers and regalia for all mem-
bers, but I would not advise that they
should have signs and pass-words or any
secrets in their Order. They should have
programs for each meeting as follows:
select readings, dialogues, declamations,
essays, singing. Then we should give out
questions for them to answer—questions on
agriculture, and other subjects, questions
on moral subjects to call out higher and
nobler thoughts, to cultivate their mental
capabilities, and also to school them in social
refinements. Do not let us raise the plea
that our children are all grown, and that we
feel no interest in the subject. If‘ we have
no young children, no grand-children, no
great-grand-children, then do we not feel an
interest in the rising generation? Most as-
suredly we should take an interest in chil-
dren. Shall we not soon pass from
the stage of life, and will not the children
soon step in and fill our places? It behooves
us then to educate them in such a manner
that they will far surpass us: with this
early instruction they will not come up as
we have and be such hard-heads, that they
cannot get out of the old beaten track.
They will be searching for newer and better
things.

If any brother or sister sees fit to reply
to this, I should be glad to hear from them,
unless, perhaps,this may find its way to the
waste-basket; but if it does the thought
will not be lost, for the world moves, and
brothers and sisters are ever marching
onward and upward, ever searching for the
right. Yours for the right,

Srscrnn S. D.
South Riley Grange, No. 456.

THE world affords no more happy circum-
stances than those which surround the
American farmers. They are the freest, most
independent, and might be the most enlight-
ened class of people on the face of the earth.

"What’s your religion, Mr. Gilbert?”
asked the landlady of her new boarder.

startled the good woman, and put her into a

reverie as to whether the man was a heathen
or misunderstood the question.

THE Wool Growers’ Bulletin and GRANGE

business combinations, bent on furthering

i ville Grange on the 26th day of March was
a most pleasant affair.
and religiously conducted by the managers.
After dinner we were invited up stairs to a
large hall, designed especially for speaking
and singing, and were highly entertained
with both during the afternoon.
but who can transact business at a time that J-99,5,
Financial Interests, and Railroad Monop-
lies, gave ample room for good talking. Too
much cannot be said in favor of the elderly
lady who spoke so well on the subject of
his arrow at the Alaska jlliller.
my friends want to know what I saw at the
feast; I will here state that at this business
the Granger is seldom a failure.

communcation in the VISITOR from our
Grange. I assure you there is talent enough
among our members if it could only be
coaxed out.

many have longed to see it draw its last

lingering breath.
revival

“ Meat three times a day,” was the reply that V

$urre;=pn;ttIe1ti:t-

Grange Festival.

___. .

The social entertainment of the VVhitney-

It was agreeably

Their sub-

Educating the Youth, Farmers’

Temperance, nor of the Granger who shot
Some of

Orssrzrzvr-IR.

About Hiding Grange Talents.

Bro. Cobb :—I have looked in vain for a

Our Grange is prospering finely, although

VVe have had quite a
this winter-5 have just taken
through six candidates, and have three
more on the road, and expect four appli-
cations at our next meeting.

'We hold our meetings every two weeks.
\Ve have literary exercises and music. \Ve
also have a household department that bids
fair to become interesting; sometimes we
have the name of a brother on the program
for an address, and if he does not have a
cold or toothache, he generally responds
when called upon. One can see talent
lurking around somewhere by the spicy
remarks that are brought out. I think our
Grange is on the broad road to success.
We have passed through the season of de-
pression, and come out victorious, and
to-day we are stronger than we were when
we counted our members at over a hundred.
What we have left is the clean wheat ; the
chaff has blown away.

Fraternally yours,

Sherwood. No. 96.

From the Grand Traverse Region.

Bro. Cobb :—In looking over the VISITOI:
I seldom find anything from this portion of
the State, I therefore send a few items.
Traverse District Grange, No. 17, held its
quarterly meeting with Silver Lake Grange,
No. 624, at Monroe Center, March 15. Con-
sidering the’snoW was four deep, and the
roads in bad condition, the attendance was
good. From reports of Subordinate Granges
we learn that the Order generally is in
a healthy condition, and slowly but sure-
ly gaining in numbers and knowledge.
There aré, as Brother Whitney says,
“tired ones,” who never come to Grange
when they can find anything else to do.
Occasionally one gets rested, comes back,
pays up his dues and goes to work.
In the evening Bro. J. G. Ramsdell gave
a very interesting and instructive public
lecture to the young people, which was list-
ened to with marked attention. He showed
up the folly and worse than loss of time of
reading our “yellow covered literature,”
and the advantages to be gained by a practi-
cable knowledge of science, history and the
biographies of our great men, in a manner
that will awaken many new thoughts in
the minds of some of our young people, and
old ones as well.
Our next quarterly meeting will be held
with Paradise Grange, No. 638, June 15 and
16. A public meeting will also be held
at that session.
The question of a Patrons’ Resort is at-
tracting considerable attention among the
farmers and business men of Northern
Michigan. We hope that the committee to
be chosen at the April meeting to select
grounds for the proposed resort will inspect
the land on the west shore of the East Bay,
just east of ’l‘raverse City. Although exam-
inations should be made elsewhere before
locating, in my judgement it is the best loca-
tion and most accessible for such an associa-
tion of any in Northern Michigan. The
land is level, the soil light sand and gravel,
and covered with a splendid growth of ever-
greens and oaks, just the right size to afford
the best of shade; never-failing water, of the
purest and best, can be obtained at a depth
of 10 to 15 feet. The location is within a
few minutes’ drive of the railroad station,
steamboat landing, telegraph and postofiice.
There will be a daily line of boats from here
to Mackinac and intermediate points, a
a weekly boat to Chicago, and a. daily boat
around each of the bays, connecting at Elk
Rapids with the little side-wheel steamer,
“ Queen of the Lakes,” which makes daily
runs through the inland lakes of Antrim
county—-said to be one of the most delight-
ful trips in the United States.

ing of the committee.

On this bay shore can be obtained at reas-
onable rates 100 acres, which, while being
in the primeval forest, has the advantage of when giving notices of meeting, as mem-
being situated in the midst of -the oldest set-
tied portion of the Traverse region--convem

best markets, and in the Genie!‘ Of the
Grange interests of northern Michigan.
Many other advantages might be Polnted

out, but as this article is already longer than

I intended to make it, we wait for the com-
S. A. G.-\itl)NER.

 

Ferris Grange, No. 440.

Bro. Cobb.-—Beirrg a member of the

Grange, I feel that I have a right to express
myself in relation to the management of
Grange affairs in general, and as to our
Grange in particular.

\Ve have in our Grange, as a general rule,
what are termed by the common observer,

good, wholesome, trntlrful, law abiding cit-

izens, as members. hit you know there are
exceptions in all cases; and that rule hits
our Grange. \Ve have members in our

Grange, who, when they become Grangers,

had contracted debts in our town ; and after
they became members of the Order, those

debts became due, and they neglected to pay

for some two years after due. Finally, the
parties who held those notes, insisted on the
payment. VVell, the Granger says to the
outsider, “ I never will pay you one cent!”
Now these debts range from $50 to $100; the

question is, is it right, because a Granger is

hard up. to repudiate his paper‘?

That the wrongs exist in our Grange, is
well-known ; and I have conversed witha
number of the brothers upon the subject;
they say, “ We know it is wrong; but l.’.ro.
‘ such a one’ never harmed me, so I will not
say or do anything about it.” That this
wrong exists among us, is an acknowledged
fact, and another fact is: not one brother
will raise his voice in the Grange, and de-
nounce the wrong, though they know it to
exist.

VVha,t is the remedy? You will probably
say, prefer charges. VVhat! prefer charges
in 23. Grange, where there are twenty broth-
ers knowing the facts of the case, and will
not exact redress? or appoint a committee
to investigate and report? and what will
be the verdict? Let no man judge. But I
will say f'or the edification of brothers or

outsiders, that the man who is a dead-beat,
“ he who rewardeth evil for good, evil shall
not depart from his house.”

J. D. Tnnoor.
FERRIS, i\Iich., Apr. 6th, 1881.

A Farmer with Good Brains.

Bro. Cobb.-—l:‘.nclosed please find money
order for $1.50, and list of names of those
wanting the Vrsrron. This subscriber is
one of the most enterprising farmers located
on Goguac Prairie. He has never been a
member of the Grange, but for some time
has been a reader of the VISITOR, and is so
well pleased with its excellence, and with
the measures advocated through its col-
umns, and also with the efforts of the farm-
ers to build up and protect their interests,
that he wishes to continue his own sub-
scription, and also pays one dollar to send
it for three monthsgto ten of his neighbor
farmers, not members of the Order. \Vould
that we had many more such liberal, pro-
gressive farmers. Yours fraternally,

H. B. HOAGLAND.
Battle Creek, April 6, 1881.

Salem Grange, No. 476.

B7-o J. T. Cobb.-—I now make my first at-
tempt to write an article for your most ex-
cellent paper. While reading the VISI'POR,
I saw so many encouraging words from other
Granges that Iconcluded that the dormant
Grangers were those who failed to report.
This year we began with forty-five good
reliable members ; very soon after one of our
best and most prominent young men who
had been a member of our Order from the
time of its organization, was suddenly re-
moved by death. This loss left us feeling
lonely and sad, but we continued to work
united and harmoniously determined to
overcome all obstacles and success has ‘at-
tended our efforts. We attribute our success
to some extent, to the fact that nearly all
our members take your excellent paper, so
valuable to every true Patron, and calculated
to inspire them with greateg zeal and en-
thusiam in their work.

We have our meetings regularly every
Friday evening, they are well attended with
an increasing interest. ‘We have added 30
new members to our list.

After the business part of the meeting is
over we have a literary programme which
consists of select reading, essays, and speak-_
ing, with some important questions; these
make the Grange a very pleasant and profit-
able for farmers to meet with their wives,
sons, and daughters. But this is not all the
real good the Grange has brought to us. The
farmers look upon each other with a greater
degree of interest than ever before, and be-
gin to see the need of speedy organization

and unity of action to correct many of the
wrongs and abuses that now exist. All this
the Grange has done and is still doing for

us.
March, 1881.

Give Post-otfice Address.

GRAND LEDGE, April 5th, 1881.
Bro. Cbbb.--As a member of a committee
appointed to ship wool, I request all Secre-
taries of Pomona, County, or District
Granges to give their post-office addresses.

bers of this committee wish to correspond
with them on important business.

VISITOR one year for 90 cents.

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BCHOOLCRAFT, - APRIL 15TH, 1881.

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SCHOOLCBAFT.

ASSESSMENT AND TAXATION.

People will all agree that a government of
some sort is necessary, even if, as has been
said, it is a necessary evil, but whether good
or bad its very existence implies expense.

The laws upon our statute books relating
to the assessment of property for purposes
of taxation were enacted, as we suppose, as
a means by which the necessary expenses of
government might be equitably distributed
among the people in proportion to what
property they may happen to have.

The theory of our government assumes to
protect the property holder in the use and
control of his own property without restric-
tion, except in so far as public health, safety,
or rights of a public nature may demand
restraint, andin return for such protection
the property is liable to be drawn upon from

time to time in some proportion as a recom-
pense for such protection.

While it is the obvious purpose -of law to
adjust the burdens imposed equitably and
fairly, yet it is notorious that through the
imperfection of law, or its imperfect enforce-
ment that the comparatively poor, or those
in moderate circumstances, hear much
more than their fair share of the expenses of
government.

Demands are continually made upon our
law makers to enact or amend, or in some
way improve existing statutes to the end
that taxation shall be more equitaby distrib-
uted. Successive legislatures in answer to
that demand or of their own motion spend
much time in the discussion of the subject,
and do, and undo, as their caprice or wisdom
dictates. and no very marked improvement
is made. The rich escape and the poor pay
an undue proportion of the burdens impos-
ed for the support of government in every
department.

We are not of those who expect that this
matter will ever reach any nice point of ex-
actness, and we have not brought the sub-
ject forward at this time for the purpose of
finding undue fault with existing laws or
suggesting any change, modification. or"
improvement. But as this is the usual
time that the supervisors and officials,
whose duty it is to assess the property of the
people of the State, commence this annu-
al work, our attention has been called to the
subject.

We have little expectation of living to
any millennial period, when people will do
right and play fair for the love of it, but
there is even at this time a sort of general
or universal recognition and approval of
right, in the dealings of people in every-day
life that we are unable to reconcile with the
conduct and management of large numbers
of respectable,well-to-do, and rich people in
their dealings with the assessor.

A suppression of facts, and a course of de-
ception is practiced that smacks of dishon-
esty to an extent that is unaccountable.
Prominence in the affairs of church or state
affords no security; the old story of Anani-
as and Saphira is forgotten, and the truth
is either not half told, or set aside altogeth-
er. How men who claim to be honest, men
who would not steal your pocket-book if ex-
posed to their cupidity, men who are square
in their ordinary business transactions and
mean to maintain a reputable business char-
acter, can justify to themselves (and a
man’s conscience is the first tribunal to

does,) the incomplete and false returns
made to the assessor, by which they escape
paying their just proportion of the inevita-
ble tax, the total of which must be periodic-
ally ground out of the community,—we say,
how men can do this and lay claim to hon-
esty and fair dealing,we have never yet been
able to understand. ‘

There are rich men in every community
who would not rob a neighboring widow of
25 or 50 cents directly, but do it indrectly
every year, and mean to do it as long
as they live. This sort of fraud has become
respectable from long established usage. N 0
one attempts to explain it and square it by
any known theory of moral science. This
is a matter of more consequence than it was
fifty years ago. Then the miuionaires of
this country could all be counted on one’s
fingers, and the man worth from five to ten
thousand dollars was rich—now we have
hundreds of millionaires, and men whose
property runs way up into the thousands
are found in almost every hamlet of our
vast country.

With a vast increase of property, has come
a proportionate increase in the various ex-
penses offgovernment, and what is unfortu-
nate in the case,a prevailing disposition has
been developed to secrete, suppress, or in
some way avoid a fair show of possession
and ownership of property on the part of
this largeficlass whose possessions have vast-
ly multiplied, but much of which is invisi-
ble to the assessor.

We will not assume that these men have

less honesty,less respect for right,less love of

TEE GRANGE VISITOR.

APRIL 15TH, 1881.

country,or,as a rule, are less worthy than the
average citizen,but leave that for others to de-
termine; but as a cl_ass, they deliberately and
with calculating ingenuity shirk or shift
the burden of taxation from their own on
to the shoulders of their less wealthy neigh-
bors. And this state of things continues on
from year to year; the man with a few
thousand paying as much tax as the man
worth ten times as much. There is a little
grumbling and occasionally a good resolu-
tion on the part of some official to bring
some delinquent to justice. But in the
main.numbers of our “best citizens” in
every county deliberately defraud their
neighbors with no better excuse than the
prevalence of a dishonest practice.

.The assessing officers, however willing or
anxious to honestly perform their official
duty,are often met by obstacles that to them
are unsurmountable, and when no favorit-
ism is intended they often fail for want of
backbone.

Now we don’t very much like to recom-
mend a meddlesome interference with the
business of other people, but in this matter
of assessment we hardly think it worth
while to talk very gingerly of those who
have a chronic habit of belittling the
amount of their worldly possessions to the
assessor for the purpose of evading their le-
gal liabilities,and as we have said before,,we
are wholly at a loss to understand how
some good reputable» citizens justify their
crookedness in making their annual returns
of their property for assessment.

We look upon it, as not only the privil-
edge, but the duty of every taxpayer to aid
supervisors and assessors to bring to light
all property legally liable to assessment, to
the end that the burdens of government
shall be borne by the citizen in proportion
to what he may be worth.

 —:__
OUR PROSPERITY.

As appears on the first column of the first
page of the VIsIToR, this edition is 9,000.
VVe have reason to thank our good friends
scattered all over the State for the good work
they have been and are still doing in send-
ing us the names of three months subscrib-
ers. Cold, unpromising, and backward as
the season has been, each day of spring has
brought to the VISITOR a gentle April show-
er of new names. Ourlistof three months
names was 2,000 on the 10th inst, and it now
looks as though we would have 3,000 before
the time of the first of these subscribers runs
out. We meant to have given special refer-
ence to some of our friends who have sent
us long lists of names, but we have not
found time to look the matter up for this
number.

“'6 feel that the growth of our subscrip-
tion list since the enlargement of the VISI-
ToR on the lst of January is alike compli-
mentary to the paper, to the industry and
faithless of its friends, and to the personal
efforts of those who contribute to its several
Departments and control its management.
The outlook of the VISITOR is most cheer-
ing to its friends, to the friends of the Order
and of agricultural improvement. And we
shall not forget to make special reference
in some future number, to the good work
done by some Patrons in this State. We
hope they will not forget the importance of
attending to these three months trial sub-
scribers, and invite them to become regu-
lar continuous readers of the VISITOR.

We are ambitions to give full value in'

good, sound reading matter to all our Pa-
rons for the money they pay us, and we ex-
pect the VISITOR will be read by 20,000
people before the close of the current vol-
ume.

 

T0 CORRESPONDENTS.

Some of our contributors do not seem to
remember that we do not publish anony-
mous communications. And this explains
why some articles that have been sent us,
do not appear.

 

OVER the signature of President Abbott,
of the State Agricultural College, we have
in this number a very full description of
the course of study, and the facilities offered
for an education at that institution, which
should be carefully read by all who take
an interest in education. From what we
know of the College we feel warranted in
saying that the professors are all gentlemen
thoroughly interested in the work in
which they are engaged, and personally
solicitous for the success of this educational
enterprise.

 

FoR some days we have had orders on our
books for the new singing book authorized
by the Ohio State Grange. The first con-
signment of ‘Glad Echoes’ was received this
day, April 14. We shall fill these orders at
once, and be ready to fill all new orders
withoutdelay.

 

TI-IE lengthy article on butter making
found in the Ladies’ Department of this
No., crowded out several articles that will
appear in our next. The article is reason-
able, sensible, and should be read, for while
there is much good butter made, it remains
true there is more poor.

 

WE notice that the Michigan Farmer is
still “The only Agricultural Paper Publish-
ed in Michigan.” '

THE NEW CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
Eligible to Membership at 14.

After about one-fourth of the last edition
of the VISITOR had been run off‘, we got no-
tice from Bro. VVoodman of the ratification
of the Constitutional Amendment, substi-
tuting 14 for 16 years of age, in Art. 6 of the
Constitution of the National Grange. The
press was stopped at once, and his commu-
nication printed in the remainder of the
edition. VVe state these facts for the infor-
mation of those of our subscribers who
chanced to receive copies of the VISITOR
first run off.

The Worthy Master, in connection with
his official proclamation, made some sugges-
tions which, while new to some, will be
worth something as a reminder to those who
have read them once before:

MASTER'S OFFICE, Paw Paw, Mich., 1
March 26, 1881. J

As many of our young friends have been
long and anxiously waiting for a change in
the Constitution of our Order which will
admit them to the benefits of membership,
and as that change has been made, and
their applications can now be received, I
do hereby recommend that all who have
been made eligible to membership by the
ratification of the Amendment, and are now
ready to affiliate with the Order, date their
applications for membership on the day us-
ually celebrated by our young people as
“May-Day” (or such time in the month
of May as may be appointed by the Master
of the Grange), and amid bursting buds and
blooming flowers enter the gate into “ Flora’s
Dominipn,” and be crowned by her, mem-
bers of our Order.

Every Grange should have a class of these
young people-—“ May-Day” candidates——and
endeavor to make the occasion of their initi-
ation into the Grange not only interesting
to the candidates, but profitable to all. As
it is one of the "fundamental principles of
our Order to “encourage the education of
the young,” let this opportunity to aid in
this direction be improved; for where can
our sons and daughters be more benefitted
than within the refining and elevating in-
fluences of a well-conducted Grange?

J. J. VVOODMAN,

Master of the National Grange, P. of H.

 

WHAT SHALL THE HARVEST BE?

We hope we are near the end ofa long,
hard winter, that seems to have lapped
over and trenched upon the rights of spring.
This hope has been deferred from day to
day, and from week to week. The presence
of bare fields, the musical robin, and the
bright sunshine, all tend to keep alive those
hopes. But the breezes that come to us
with each returning day, are laden with the
chilly breath of winter. The fertilizing
April showers of former years come not,
and the wheat fields have a brown, sickly
discouraged look. The farmers everywhere
have croaked ‘for days, weeks and months,
and are still creaking, and very many have
answered our question, in the most positive
manner that the wheat harvest won’t " be”
at all this year, in this State. Before the
next VISITOR takes shape, the tardy spring
must come, and some genial shower deter-
mine how much vitality, if any, remains
with the sorry looking crop. There is
scarcely a neighborhood in the State where
some one will not see this, our invitation to
report the condition of the wheat crop to
the VISITOR. Between the 20th and 25th of
this month, we want to receive several hun-
dred letters that shall give us such facts
about the wheat on the ground as shall en-
able ns to form an intelligent opinion of
the prospect for a wheat crop in this State
this season. We ask every Grange to call
the subject up, canvass it and instruct its
Secretary to make a report for compilation
in the .VIsIToR of May lst. Persons writ-
ing us on business will please bear in mind
this request, and add a few words that will
aid us in this work. Let us do what we can
to make the Order useful and this is an
opportunity that should not be neglected.

Since this matter has been presented to
our minds in this shape, it occurs to us that
it would be well to have a summary in each
number of the VIsIToR of the condition of
the crops in this State.

If correspondents will make it a point to
refer to the condition of crops in their locali-
ty at the time of writing, we will try and
condense the facts into a half-column, more
or less. With a little attention and trouble
this may be made a valuable feature of the
VISITOR. Shall we have it?

 

BRO. JAMES W. KNAPP, of Whitehall,
neglected to keep a file of the VISITOR of
1880, and now inquires about some kind of
cheap paint that was described in a number
last year. He wants the recipe printed
again. Thinks lime or stucco was used as
an ingredient. We will comply with his
request, if any one will send us the recipe.
He also wants a recipe for making grafting
wax that will stand hot and cold weather.

 

WE have a set of the “ Little Detective,”
sent us by Geo. W. Hill, of Detroit, whose
ad. is kept standing on our eighth page. It
is a very complete and accurate scale, weigh-
ing from one-fourth of an ounce to 25
pounds. For convenience it beats anything
we have seen, and should be in the house-
keeping department of every far-mer’s fa mi-
ly. Price $2.55.

 

THAT SILVER WEDDING.

Our purpose to write up briefly the silver
wedding of Bro. Woodman, which occurred
on the evening of VVednesday, March 30,
has been forestalled by the receipt of a com-
munication, “For the VISITOR,” from a
fellow-guest, which will be found on anoth-
er page.

Bro. and Sister VVoodman have a farm-
home, beautifully located close to the vil-
lage of Paw Paw, with such substantial sur-
roundings as denote good management and
personal attention to the details of their
chosen vocation. VVithin their spacious
home are abundant evidences that farm life
has gone beyond the common and neces-
sary, to the beautiful and elegant. Geiiial
in manner and cordial in their friendship,
this anniversary of a quarter century of wed-
ded life was the fit occasion for the gather-
ing together of their many friends,
for that kindly interchange of those social
amenities that we all recognize as bright
spots in the pathway of life.

Those of us who came from a distance shared
the hospitalities of the house for the night.
The spare beds were all filled, and we left
the following day with the promise to come
again (if we can), when this worthy couple
invite us to renew those greetings as they
reach the milestone in life's journey that
marks the golden period of fifty years of
love and labor.

 

THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE AND THE ANTI-
MONOPOLY LEAGUE.

We have by circular from the office of the
Anti-Monopoly League, New York city,
the following editorial from the New York
Tribune of February 23. together with the
reply of F. B. Thurber, which was sent to
the Tribune for publication. Its refusal to
let its readers see a manly, courteous answer
to its arraignment of the motives and prin-
ciples of this new organization is a coward-
ly confession that it was unequal to the
task it had undertaken.

The Anti-Monopoly Movement.

What is called the Anti-Monopoly move-
ment made further progress toward defeating
itself by the meeting at Cooper Institute on
Monday night. Naturally, those who par-
ticipated fail to perceive that the meeting
did harm to the cause which it was intended
to promote. Most of them were sincere and
honest; the meeting was large; and the
conclusion of those who are for the moment
incapable of seeing both sides of the ques-
tion involved, would naturally be that the
public opinion had already been strongly
aroused, and would by the meeting be
aroused still more strongly, to support some
definite and needful reform. But the
thoughtful observer will perceive that no
clearly defined or rational remedy for exist-
ing abuses was advocated by the meeting or
its speakers. If he is sincere and large
minded, the observer will also note with
regret that steps in the last degree impracti-
cable or injust were advocated with a reck-
less and violent spirit, a wanton disregard
of private rights, and an obstinate blindness
as to ultimate consequences to the people as
a whole, which better befit the Reds and
Communists ofa by-gone day in Paris, than
the free citizens of the self governing and
prosperous United States.

“It is hard to make narrow reformers un-
derstand that extreme measures usually
tend to defeat the cause which they are de-
signed to promote. The “Native American”
could not understand that a few ultrao pro-
posals, accompanied by a few violent and
unjust acts, caused a complete revulsion
of public feeling against the movement to
restrict the influence offoreign-born citizens
in public affairs. The greatest reform of the
century-—the abolition of slavery— would
never have been effected had not the Re-
publican party scrupuously confined itself
to the resisting the spread of that system of
labor. The blatant demagogism of Kearney,
and the violence of his followers, completely
disgusted the country with agitation against
the importation of Chinese laborers. The
senseless and unjust measures adopted by
the Granger influence caused a revolution
against the reforms in transportation which
reasonable men desired. The intolerant
spirit and intolerable demands of the Trades
Unions, culminating in the great railway
strike and the consequent riots, aroused all
the conservatism of the country to resist and
put down a tendency which, if unchecked,
could onlyrhave ended in the destruction of
all rights of property and the disintegration
of civilized society.

“Mr. Black, the chiefspeaker of the meet-
ing on Monday, bases his whole argument
upon the assumption that Iailroad corpora-
tions ‘are public servants and trustees.’ The
common sense of intelligent and conserva-
tive men instantly rejects the assertion, and
is revolted by the conclusions to which it
logically leads. Trustees and public servants
can not honestly make money out of their
trust. They do not invest their own capital.
Every sensible man knows that builders
and owners of railroads never would have
put a dollar of their own money into the
business, taking all the risks which attend
any other venture of private means and en-
terprise, in the expectation that they would
be compelled to account to the public as
trustees for the use of their own money, and
permitted to take as their profits only such
sum as a public composed of shippers and
travellers might be generous enough to give
them. Mr. Black’s fundamental assumption
is a huge falsehood. Every sober and reas-
onable man knows that it is, and is moved
instantly to reject a movement based upon
so shameless an attempt to confiscate to the
state the property of individuals.

“The resolutions adopted at this meeting
demand laws, in effect, assuming for the
public complete -control and practical own-
ership of property invested y individuals
in an honest and legitimate branch of busi-
ness. Laws ‘to prevent pooling and com-
bination,’ though farmers, merchants, law-
yers, and men of other occupation daily com-
bine, in the exercise of their right as free
citizens, to secure a fair return for their in-
vestment of money and labor; laws ‘to pre-

vent discrimination against any citizen.’
though every merchant, every farmer, every
lawyer, and every free citizen in the land,
has the right to charge less for his property
or services at wholesale than at retail ; laws
‘to prevent paying dividends on watered
stock’—a piece of demagogism fit only for
persons who are too ignorant to know that a

ye ‘per cent. dividend on a stock of$20,000,-
00O_is precisely equal to a ten per cent.
dividend on a stock of $10,000,000, and that
no law can restrain the merchant, the law-
yer, or the farmer from getting 20, 30, or
even 00 per cent. profits in a year upon the
capital invested by him in his business;
laws to ‘regulate commerce among the sev-
eral States,’ which means, as here applied,
anything that the greed and malice of in-
dividuals may make it mean ; all these are
loosely and recklessly demanded by the res-
olutions, without the slightest attempt to
discriminate between proper measures for the
protection of the public, and the wildest and
most wicked measures for the confiscation
of private property.

“In truth, the publicis not blind. It sees
very clearly the indecent and grasping sel-
fishness which underlies a great deal of the
agitation about charges for corporate servi-
ces. How much has the farmer reduced
his charge for wheat, cotton, or pork, with-
iiithe past twenty years? N-ota hundredth
part as much as the railroads have reduced
their charges. How much has Mr. Thurber
or any other merchant cut down the percent-
age of his profits in his charge for merchan-
dise sold? Not a thousandth part as much,
to say the least, as the telegraph companies
have reduced the charges for service render-
ed. How much has Mr. Chittenden or any
other lawyer cut down his fees for defending
a client? Is there no ‘combination’ among
lawyers, to make legal charges high, and
legal remedies slow and costly? Corpora-
tions are often grasping and greedy. Yes;
but so are individuals, not rarely, in every
department of industry. In the long run,
the farmer, the merchant, the lawyer, or
the corporation makes the most money by
giving the public the best service at the
least cost.”

ANSWER To THE EDITORIAL.

To the Editor of the Tribune.-—In your ed-
itoiial entitled “ Anti Monopoly,” published
in the Tribune of the 23rd, you say regarding
the Anti Monopoly meeting at Cooper In-
stitute “steps in the last degree impractica-
ble or unjust were advocated with a reckless
or violent spirit, a wanton disregard of pri-
vate rights and an obstinate blindness as to
the consequences to the people as a whole,
which better betit the Reds and Commun-
ists of a bygone day in Paris than the free
citizens of the self governing and prosperous
United States.”

I respectfully submit that the writer of
the above has totally misconceived the spirit
of that meeting and the men who were most
active in promoting it, and whether this
was done ignorantly, or wilfully, the act is
none the less to be deplored. The organiza-
tion of the Anti-Monopoly League has been
forced upon the people by abuses in corpor-
ate management which repeated legislative
investigations have pronounced “fully
proven,” and which the Hepburn Commit-
tee termed “so glaringin their proportions
as to savor of fiction rather than actual his-
tory.” Another Legislative Committee has
stated of the railroad management of one of
the reputed owners of the Tribune (Mr. Jay
Gould), that it exposes the reckless and
prodigal use of money wrung from the peo-
ple to purchase the election of the people’s
representatives, and to bribe them when in
ofiice.”

Now, if there is any truth in these official
reports, it is time the American people were
stirring to preserve the principles upon
which our system of government is founded.
If, on the other hand, there is no truth in
them, then, as stated by Judge Black, the
railroad managers are much abused individ-
uals, and the men who are trying to hold
them to some responsibility to the public are
in the highest degree culpable.

I respectfully submit, however, that there
can be but one reasonable answer to this
question, and to meet the well founded
complaints of the public with a comparison
of the men who make these complaints to
the “reds and communists of abygone day
in Paris,” is to force upon the people of the
United States a disregard for law and order
which every good citizen must deprecate.
In a recent article from the Graphic, touch-
ing upon the objects and purposes of the
Anti-Monopoly League, we find the follow-
ing:

If we ever have a conflict between capital
and labor in this country it will be because
of the injustice done the masses by corporate
monopolies. It therefore behooves all classes
of citizens, and particularly those who have
property, to sustain the efforts now being
made by reasonable and intelligent citizens
to limit the power of men who, to use the
words ofa committee of the United States
Senate, “recognize no principle of action
but personal and corporate aggrandize-
ment.”

The principles advocated by the League
are as follows :

“Our principles: Anti Monopoly.

We advocate and will support and defend
the rights of the many as against privileges
Ior the few.

Corporations, the! creation of the state,
shall be controlled by the state.

Labor and capital, allies, not enemies-
justice for both.

To put such a construction upon them as
you do in your editorial of the 23d ult., is in
the highest degree unjust. I believe it also
to be unwise, and only to be explained on
the principle that “whom the gods would
destroy they first make mad,” If Messrs,
Gould, Vanderbilt and their confreres go on
watering stock, corrupting our elections and
legislatures and discriminating in their
management of public highways until the
people become desperate, they must expect
desperate remedies. If they only knew it
the men who are now seeking by legal and
constitutional means to limit their power
and prevent these abuses, are their best
frieniis. and yet they repudiate the idea that
they should submit to any control, and
through their journals decry and misrepre-
sent all efforts to that end.

The Tribune in the above mentioned arti-
cle suggested that “indecent. and gras ing
selfishness underlies the agitation of the
Anti-Monopoly League;” regarding the
statement that the League proposes to ad.
vocate laws to prevent paying dividends on
watered stock, the Tribune terms it “a piece
of demagogism fit only for persons wholare
too ignorant to know that a five r cent.
dividend on a stock of twenty ' lions is
precisely equal to a dividend of ten

 


APRIL 15TH, 1881.

per cent, on a stock of ten millions, and
that no laws restrict the merchant, the
lawyer or the farmer from getting 20, 30. or
even -50 per cent. profit upon the capital in-
vested by him in his businevs.”

This passage is very suggestive. No one
will dispute that 5 per cent. on $20,0l)0,0()0 is
equalto 10 per cent. on $10,000.0(l0; but if
the railroads are content with this. why in-
crease the stock? No one will find fault
with the railroad making 10 per cent upon
its actual cost, but the public do object to
paying unlimited dividends on unlimited
stocks, and I do not think it is a piece of
“demagogism” to advocate “laws to prevent
taxing the public to pay dividends on water-
ed stock.” Your comparison of the mer-
chant, the lawyer, or the farmer to the rail-
road is equally unfair. Neither of these cit-
izens have been given a public franchise to
perform a public business, and if Lhey had
been, the law of supply and demand, and of
competition, works freely in their cases,
while with railroads‘ it is partially inoper-
ative. In the one case the welfare of the
public is protected by the operation of these
natural laws; in the other it is not, and,
therefore, the railroad and the telegraph
should be subject to regulation in the inter-
est of the public. I have always noticed
that when great corporations have been
asking privileges from the public they put
forward their public nature very prominent-
ly; but when it comes to performing their
duties to the public they generally claim the
privilege of private citizens.

The Anti-Monopoly League recognizes
the fact that corporations have both their
rights and their duties, and it proposes as far
as possible to see both are observed. Hoping
that the Tribune will be willing to cooper-
ate to this end, I remain, very respectfully,

F. B. THURBER.

®IJI1IIIt1IItita1iuII:.»‘«.

Slate Agricultural College of Michigan.

THE number of otiicers of the Agricultural
College has lately been increased by ll. Super-
intendent of the Horticultural llepartment,
a professional Vegetable Gardener, and an
Instructor in Political Economy and llistory,
and an Assistant in Mathematics. ’l‘liere are
besides these newly appointed men, the Pres-
ident, a Professor of Agriculture and his
Foreman, a Professor of Chemistry and As-
sistant, a. Professor of Entomology, one of
Botany, of Mathematics and Civil Engineer-
ing, and one of the English Language and
Literature. Temporary Instructors in Draw-
ing, and Veterinary Hygiene are also em-
ployed.

The full course of study extends over four
years, and the Degree of Bachelor of Science
is bestowed on those who complete it. Stu-
dents are admitted to select studies for any
length of time.

Special attention is given in the course of
study to Agriculture and Horticulture, and
the sciences that have most intimate relation-
ship with them. Chemistry is pursued
through five terms of the course, there being
three terms a year. A seperate building has
been erected for the Chemical Department,
and is to be enlarged the present year. The
Department is well equipped with apparatus
of the best sort. For more than one term,
students spend several hours a. day in the an-
alytical laboratory at work in analysis.’ Ag-
ricultural cliemistry follows. Then comes
Chemical Physics, and there succeeds this a
term’s lectures in Meteorology.

The means for the study of Botany and
Horticulture are unsurpassed in the West.
The Department has a new ball devoted to
it, with large and finely lighted lecture and
work rooms, and an ample room for its muse-
um‘. There is a botanic garden, with grasses
of many varieties, plants that grow in rocky
places, in wet places, and in water, and climb-
ing plants. There is also an Arboretum of
native and foreign trees. The botanic gar-
den and arboretum are in immediate charge
of the Professor of Botany. A green-house,
with propagating pits and liower borders, af-
ford further means for botanical study. The
Green-house, with its “propagating pits,” in
equipment, management, and success, is the
admiration of all visitors, and with only a
moderate outlay. The Park, of large extent,
containing a. great variety of native and
other trees, properly labeled, and the various
fruit orchards. The vegetable garden affords
the student practice in the different branches
of Horticulture.

Students purchase the small microscopes
they use in the study of Elementary Botany,
but for the more thorough study of the Senior
year, the College provides large and costly
compound microscopes.

The College will this year erect a hall, in
which the whole department of Zoology and
Entomology will find a lecture room, dissect-
ing rooms, and a hall for the museum of col-
lections of zoology and geology. The Apiary
should be excepted, as its inhabitants will
still be left in their place outside. The lec-
tures are illustrated by specimens and mod-
els, practice in dissection, and in the manage-
ment of bees is given to all the students.

Lectures in practical Agriculture are given
in the Freshman and Senior years ; and
these lectures supplement by practical in-
struction the theoretical instruction that is
given in Agriculture, in the lectures on
Chemistry, Agricultural Chemistry, Vegeta-
ble Physiology. and Comparative Physiology,
as well as supplementing also the instruction
in Mechanics. A farm and stock, which has
lately been much improved, farm implements
(for which a building is to be erected this
year), and other means of illustration are at
the College.

The Mathematics are pursued through the
subject of Trigonometry. For Mechanics,

there is zi collection of models and plates;
for Astror.oiny,:1n observatory with 3. line
telescope and globes; for Surveying, com-
passes, levels, transits, and other means for
practice; for (fivil Engineei'ii1g and Archi-
tecture, plates and a stereoscoptican; and
for drawing models.

History, Meiital and Moral Science, and

Political liconomy, receive their share
of attention, but especial pains is taken to
give students a proper command of the ling-
lish laiiguage, and a taste for English litera-
ture. Rhetoric in the first term after enter-
ing, is succeeded hy three more terms of daily
drill and criticism. Then by another term of
lihetoric, and all these by :1 terin"s work in
English lite-i'at11i‘e. This very long course is
inzide i1ccessa1‘y by the fact that there is no
instruction given in any other lzuiguogc.
The students have i‘(*£l(llll_‘_{>‘. with the l’i‘ofcs-
sor ill Slieilispcziiw-, Milton, and other stand-
ard zuilliors.
_ The (‘ollegc expects daily inanuzil labor of
its students in those seasons of tlie'_ve-:11‘ when
it can be furnished. This labor is for tlirce
hours. The coinpensatioii does not exceed
eight ceiits an hour, but it goes S<illl(‘ way in
paying the expenses of the student.

it is expected that ll. six weeks’ daily course
of lectures will be given this year in Voter-
inary Hygiene, and that instruction in this
science will be given to each class liei'caftei‘-

Students have daily access to El. library of
some seven tliousand volumes, and a large
reading-rooin furnished with many newspa-
pers, and many of the st:u1d:u'd literary, sci-
entific, and industrial periodicals of the day-
Tliis library is to go into a hall, to be erected
this year.

Tuition is free, and board is at cost. Books,
board, and other college dues require from
eighty to a hundred and twenty-five dollars a
year, varying according to circuinstances, but
cliietiy according to the habits of the student.

A catalogue will be published the last of
May, which will be sent to any applicant on
addressing T. C. Anuo'rT,

Lansing, Mich.

The Silver Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Woodman.

Over two hundred invitations were issued
to the friends of Ur. and Mrs. Woodman,
and notwithstanding the inclemency of the
weather, more than one hundredcand fifty
responded in person. Neighbors, who knew
them in early life; surrounding friends in
later years; associates in matters of public
interests, all met to do honor to the occasion.

Letters of regret from over twenty absent
friends who could not be present, were re-
ceived, bespeakiug the kindest friendship
and expressing the sincerest regret at not
being able to attend the evening festivities.
The ample apartments of their home were
well filled, all seeming to enjoy the occasion
with a zest that seemed to overflow with
jollity and good fellowship.

President Abbott. of the Agricultural Col-
lege, sent, accompanying his letter of regret,
a large collection of rare and beautiful flow-
ers, of over forty varieties. They were great-
ly admired by the guests, and indicated the
high esteem in which Mr. and Mrs. VVood-
man are held by the faculty of the college.

Many of the guests arrived on the after-
noon train. Among them were the Hon.
Thos. F. Moore and wife, of Adrian, J. T.
Cobb and wife, with several other friends
from Schoolcraft and Vicksburg, Mrs. Hoyt
and Mrs. Palmer, from Grand Rapids, old
school-mates of the host, and Mrs. Wells D.
\Voodman, of Hillsdale.

The other guests arrived very promptly at
the hour and were selected with such fitness
that every one knew almost every other one
in the entire company, so that no restraint
was felt and no propriety corners occupied.

The delicate admonition at the bottom Of
the invitations, (“no presents") was not en-
tirely heeded. On the side-board was dis-
played quite an array of gifts: A mantel
piece clock, set in alabaster, covered with a
glass globe, was the gift of Mr. and Mrs. J.
T. Cobb, of Schoolcraft; a very large silver
cake basket, from the members of the Paw
Paw Grange, suitably engraved; one half
dozen silver knives, by W. R. Hawkins; a
set of silver fruit knives, by Mrs. G. W.
Matthews, and Mrs. E. Darling; a carving
knife rest, by Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Blackman;
a. pair of unique napkin rings, in book form,
by Mrs. E. C. Hendrick; a gold lined card
receiver from Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Longwell;
an elegant pie knife, by Mr. and Mrs. G. E.
Chappell; a large cream spoon by Mr. and
Mrs. E. P. Mills; a silver vase by Mr. and
Mrs. O. P. Morton ; an elegant pickle castor
by Mrs. H. P. Nelson and Mrs. S. H Jones.
By the next morning’s mail came a pair of
solid silver desert spoons from'Mr. and Mrs.
Peter VVoodman, of Lindon, Vermont.

The time from the arrival until nearly ten
o'clock was employed in that social inter-
mingling which adds so much to the enjoy-
ment of a gathering ofold time friends, when
the aroma of coffee began to prevade the air,
little folding tables were set among the con-
genial groups, all betokening the distribu-
tion of refreshments. The kitchen was a
bee hive, filled with sweets and substantials,
but unlike its prototype,the workers emerged
oaded and returned empty, supplying to the

guests a. profusion of delicacies, the perfec-
tion of which the ladies will all be striving
to emulate.

The guests lingered until quite a late hour,
10th to leave the genial company, dropping
out one by one or in little knots, so that no
general break-up was apparent. Twelve

eseemee wires-

o‘clock closed the record of the occasion, ex-

I cept the pleasant memories left in the hearts

ofall. Many were the good wishes spoken
by departing guests, dropping like benedic-
tions on the heads of those who had iust
closed their twenty-fifth bridal day.
“ Golden gates of fifty years.
May these two your latchet press :

Garden of the sunset land,
Hold their dearest happiness.”

The Grange in Kalamazoo County.

Bro. J. T. Cobb .-—Perhaps it would not
be out place for me, even at this late day,
to write up a short account of a visit to your
County in the work of the Grange.

I was invited in January by Bro. Strong,
\Vorthy Lecturer of the Pomona Grange of
Kalamazoo County, to accompany him on a
visiting tour to some of the Granges, and
hold meetings for the purpose of getting up
an interest and more energetic work among
the members of our Order in the County. I
accepted Bro. Strong’s invitation and we
commenced our work February 21st by
holding a meeting VVednesday evening
with Vicksburg Grange. Vicksburg Grange
Hall is located in the village of that name,
and is a large and convenient one. Our
meeting was well attended, and the hall was
full, and much apparent interest was mani-
fested, and we could not but feel that our
meeting was a success. Vicksburg Grange
is made up of most excellent material for a
prosperous Grange, and seems to be in a
healthy condition. Among its earnest
workers is our Worthy Brother Strong who
is ever ready to do his whole duty in the
work of our Order.

The next meeting was held in Montour
Grange Hall on Thursday afternoon, Feb-
ruary 10th. The attendance was good and
all that could be desired. Montour Grange
is not only alive but thoroughly in earnest,
and I shall be greatly disappointed ifit does
not give a good account of itself in the way
of prosperity and good work in our Order.
Among the best moves I discovered was the
determination to build a hall. Like too
many of our Granges they are tenants, but
they propose soon to have a house for their
Grange. Icannot but conclude that when
a Grange has come to that determination it
has made up its mind to stay.

The next Grange in the order of our work
was Galesburg, on Thursday evening.
Galesburg Grange Hall is a rented one, quite
convenient, but, located in the village, as
many others of our Grange halls are, on ac-
count of convem'ence. The attendance at
our meeting was fair and composed of earn-
est workers, but the Grange I should judge.
needed a revival, and I feel assured that the
work in that Grange will by no means he
abundant. Its members fully understand
and feel its need and will see to it that it is
not left to perish.

The next Grange visited was Texas
Grange which We found alive and at work.
The attendance was very good at our meeting
and we could not but feel that our visit to
Texas Grange was beneficial to all concerned.
The country around the hall is good and
just such as to makeaflourishing Grange,
and their work will tell for the good of our
Order.

Saturday, 12th, we visited Portage Grange,
not at their ball, but in a hotel near the
hall. Portage Grange is at work in earnest.
Our meeting was well attended, the interest
good, and Bro. Strong thought we might
tally success at Portage. I also wish here
to say to our brothers and sisters, you must
bring in more of the young people in the
Grange, and you must have more open
meetings to bring about this result.

Saturday evening we were with School-
craft Grange. Now, Brother Cobb, it is not
necessary for me to Write about Schoolcraft
Grange. Of course we had a good meeting,
and why should not Schoolcraft Grange be
alive and doing good, right in the shade of
the GRANGE VISITOR, and in the midst of
good influences. I see nothing the least

discouraging in the outlook of Grange work
in Kalamazoo County, and all looks hopeful.
But I would say to our brothers and sisters,
do not forget there is work to be done, and
it is to be done by ourselves—you and you,
and all, are the workers. Take it home that
you have a duty that must be done. _ Do this
and fruit will ripen.

But I almost forgot to mention that Broth-
er Strong and myself had a very pleasant
trip. and were generously entertained by
our brothers and sisters, and Bro. Whitney
need not think that no one gets good living
but himself. because we do not say all about
it. No, I assure you we always live on the
upper shelf when on Grange work,and the
latch-string was always found out.

THOMAS F. MOORE.

Adrian, April 6, 1881.

Washed and Unwashed Wool.

In answer to an inquiry as to the treat-
ment of unwashed wool, Messrs. Fenno &
Manning, of Boston, say:

Unwashed wools are sold on their merits
as a rule here, and the price varies with the
condition of the wool. We do not think
the net result varies a great deal to the
farmer, in the yield per head, of his flock,
whether he ships washed or unwashed. As
a rule, the manufacturers of combing or de-
laine wools, particularly the latter, in the
grade of extra or fine delaine, prefer the
washed wool. But we are’ working now to
get these parties to use the unwashed as well
as the washed, and we believe that the cus-
tom of shearing unwashed is gaining favor
every season, as it saves labor for the farmer,
and is better for the sheep.

Very tru y yours,
FENNO &. MANNING.

5

Grange Discussions.

A correspondent writing from Weston, af-
ter complimenting the “Agricultural De-
partment ” of the VISITOR, ventures to give
in a condensed form some points brought
out at the last meeting of the Grange on the
following subjects: -

The best time to sow clover seed.

As soon as the frost leaves the ground
sufiiciently to allow water to soak down in-
stead of running off the surface, there is then
but little danger of seed washing away. The
late freezing and thawing does much to cov-
er the seeds with earth, helping them when
sprouted to take deeper root, and protect
partially from the hot sun while tender, and
before the root has reached a depth suffi-
cient to bear dry weather. Seed can be
sown on level or fiat ground before that ofa
rolling, or hilly surface, as there is but little
danger ofseed washing away. A light snow
is a good index to sow by, as the seed lying
on the surface tells you how thick and even
you are sowing, but sown seed, on dry soil,
should be worked in with 9. light barrow.

Selecting a site for an apple orchard.

The location should be naturally dry.
Ground that would not raise ordinary farm
crops without under-draining, is not liable
to bring about the best results as an orchard
location. Dry, sandy soil produces the high-
est colored and flavored fruit, and conse-
quently best for market. A northward de-
scending location retains frost later, and
likewise tree blossoms, thereby preventing
injury by late frosts.

Spring cleam'ng—housc and door yards.

This should be done thoroughly for gen-
eral appearance, and the health of the fam-
ily. Refuse in the cellar, boards and litter
in the back yard where slops have been
thrown out-, harbor a great amount of poison.
Give light and ventilation to all living
rooms and the cellar. Construct proper
drains to carry away water and slops, and
let the sun purify the ground under where
the winter’s accumulation of rubbish lies.

Early spring work on the farm.

Like successful men in all other classes of
business, the farmer should calculate and
lay plans for future work. Much depends
upon the perfect readiness for the work laid
out. G. B. HORTON.

Our whereabouts.

The week of the 27th we expect to go into
Eaton county and do some work for the Ea-
ton County Pomona Grange, and hope that
all the meetings in that county will be well
attended, that every Patron will make a
special effort to attend as many of the meet-
ings as is possible and get out a large at-
tendance at the public meetings of those
who are not members of the Order. Dor-
mant Granges should make a great effort to
have some of the meetings in their vicinity,
and it is to be hoped that one or more of
their tired bodies will be refreshed by our
effort then.

On May 5th we expect to be with the
St. Joseph County Grange at Constantine,
and later to make a brief visit to the
counties of Mecosta and Osceola, and
can make more appointments there if asked
for in time. Later we expect to visit Gene-
see and Oakland counties for some earnest
work; can put in more time if it is sought
soon. Don’t delay until the last moment,
but speak in time — is the way to secure the
work’s being done. Fraternally,

C. L. WHITNEY, Lect.

Dominion Grange.

At the last session of the Dominion
Grange, the Hon. W. M. Blair, M. P. P.,
Truro, Nova Scotia, was elected Master.
Hon. S. W. Hill, of Ridgeville, Ontario, was
chosed Lecturer, while the position of Sec-
retary is still held by‘_W. Pemburton Page,
East Toronto. Brother E. H. I-Iilborne, the
late VVorthy Master, does not retire from ac-
tive service in the Order, but will continue
to labor in the good cause.

ABOUT the last of the month some thor-
ough work is to be done in Eaton County
by their Pomona Grange, in the way of re-
viving and strengthening the Grange work
there. Let every Eaton County Patron
take hold of this good work and make it a
success. Let the weak and indifferent re-
member that those receive the most help
from others who help themselves most.

OUR Grange has recently taken nine new
members into its fold—all the result of
kindly furnishing the VISITOR three months
to some families unacquainted with the Or-
der and its aims and purposes. Try it wit h
10 families in your grange,—it will cost you
only a dollar.

Seeds, Plants and Bulbs.

As many orders are now coming in for
seeds for the garden, and plants and bulbs
for house and lawn, I will renew my offer
of former years to furnish any Patron or
member of the Order with them at the fol-
lowing rates:

Selecting from Vick’s, Henderson’s and
other standard retail price lists, I will fur-
nish $1.50 worth of plants, bulbs and seeds
for $1.00 cash. Seeds and small plants sent
free by mail. Larger plants sent by express,
with enough extras added to pay expressage.

Fraternally, I am,

0. L. WHITNEY.
Muskegon, Mich.

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Forest Grange, No. 362.

J. T. Cobb, Sec. Stale Grange .-—-You will
please find enclosed Secretary’s quarterly
report for the quarter ending March 31,
with money order for the amount ($8.42),
which please receipt.

Forest Grange is now in a more prosper-
ous condition than formerly, as you will
see by the report that we have conferred
the four degrees on the nine members named
in the report, and we already have four
more waiting to enter within the gate. VVe
devoted one entire evening to feasting and
social intercourse, interspersed with good
singing, until nearly one o'clock, when we
bade each other good-night, and dispersed
to our several homes, well pleased with
each other and the Grange work.

Fraternally,
l\lRS- E. S. MARTIN, Sec’y.

Worthy Secretary of the State Grange :-
How many Grange Secretaries and Masters
are there in the State who do not take the
GRANGE Visrroa? It would be interesting
to know that their members may realize it,
and the neighboring Patrons may know
why that Grange don’t thrive.

ENQUIRER.

NOTICES OF MEETINGS.

Bro. Oobb.-—Please notice in the VISTOR
that the next regular meeting of the Ionia
County Grange will be held on Tubsday and
Wednesday, April 19 and 20, at Otisco
Grange hall. All members of the Order are
cordially invited.

Fraternally yours,

A. INMAN.
Ionia, April 3, 1881.

The St. Joseph County Pomona Grange
will hold its next meeting in the village of
Constantine on the 5th of May next, and
State Lecturer C. L. Whitney has prom-
ised to be in attendance. This county
abounds in good Patrons, and an interesting
meeting may be expected.

Eaton County Pomona Grange, No. 28,
will hold its next quarterly meeting at
Bellvue, Wednesday April 27, 1881. The
afternoon meeting will be open. Come one
and all, and we shall have a good time.

J. SHAW, Sec’y.
Charlotte, March 31, 1881.

The regular meeting of Livingston
County Council will be held Tuesday, May
3, 1881, in Howell Grange hall. These
meetings are always well attended and full
of interest, and we cordially invite Patrons
of other counties to come and enjoy these
good times with us, assuring them they will
always find a hearty welcome from the
Patrons of Livingston County.

Mas. ‘V. K. SEXTON, Sec.

Bro. Oobb .-—The next meeting of Tuscola
County Pomona Grange, No. 30, will occur
at Cass City on Tuesday, the third of May,
to which all fourth-degree members are
most cordially invited. We have several
very interesting topics down for considera-
tion, among others, “ How can we best cre-
ate a greater interest in the ‘Subordinate
Grange?" and “ How can we best reach
those outside the gate?” -—questions in
themselves worthy of the whole time of a
meeting, in them being found the very life
of the Grange, both at the present and in
the time to come. We shall also have some
papers provided by brothers.

We hope to have the pleasure of Brother
Mickley’s company, so that our bill of fare,
as Patrons will see, is likely to be of the
highest order. As a simple notice of meet-
ing, is too confined a space to say much, I
will only add, that the meeting will be
made as interesting and instructive to the
visitor as possible.

Patrons of Tuscola County, turn out in
goodly numbers, and cheer us on our way
in our good work. Fraternally,

J No. MASON, Sec’y.
Elmwood, April 7, 1881.

Van Buren County Grange will meet at
Decatur, May 12th, 1881, at 10 A. M.

PROGRAM.

How may fowls be made profitable ?—W.
F. 'I‘rafl'er.

How may house-work be less monotonous
and more attractive to girls? Mrs. J. E.
Packard, Hartford.

Paper on Prohibition.-—D. Woodman.

Advantages of the girls of to-day, over
those of a century ago.—Miss Isadora Harri-
son.

EVENING sEssIoN.

Is there profit in hogs ?-—W. F. Connor.

How to lay out a flower garden, and what
varieties are best for bouquets ?—Miss Dora
Woodman.

Farm crops for profit.—A. C, Gliddem

BRO. LOCKE, from J eddo Grange, No. 491 ,
of St. Clair County, writes that that Grange
at a recent meeting conferred the degree
upon five members and received applica-
tions for seven more persons. Let the light
from Jeddo shine on the whole country.
He also writes that Port Huron Grange, at

its last meeting, took four new members as
Patrons. '

To TEN names, not members of the Order,
we will send the VISITOR three months for

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WHERE IS YOUR BOY T0-MGHT?

Life is teeming with evil snares,
The gates of sin are wide,

The rosy fingers of pleasure wave
And beckon the young inside.

Man of the world, with open purse
Seeking your own delight,

Pause, ere reason is wholly gone—-
‘Where is your boy to-night ‘r

Sirens are singing on ekery hand,
Luring the ear of youth ;
Gilded falsehood with silver notes
Drowneth the voice of truth.
Dainty lady in costly robes,
Your parlors gleam with light.
Fate and beauty your senses steep—
Where is your boy to-night ?

Tempting whispers of royal spoil
Flatter the youthful soul

Eagerly entering into life,
Restless of all control;

Needs are many, and duties stern
Crowd on the weary sight,—-
Father, buried in business cares,
“Where is your boy to-night?

Pitfalls lurk in the flowery ways,
Vice bath a golden gate ;

Who shall guide the unwary feet
Into the highway straight?

Patient worker, with willing hand
Keeping the home-hearth bright,

Tired mother. with tender eyes,
Where is your boy to-night '8

Turn his feet from the evil paths
Ere they have entered in.

Keep him unspotted while yet ye may,
Earth 1S so stained with sin.

Ere he has learned to follow wrong,
Teach him to love the right ;

Watch, ere watching is wholly vain—
Where is your boy to-night P

9

Butler Making.

That there are many faults and defects in
our present system of butter making is an
undeniable fact, and yet many of us are at
aloss to understand why this is. Farmers
tell us it is not their fault, as our resources
for producing butter are unlimited. Their
stock is of the best, their pastures are broad,
their streams and springs are abundant to
supply pure water for their use, and yet
With all these there are many faults and de-
fects. Now, the farmers’ wives, by whose
hands, or under whose directions it must
nearly always be made, ought to take up
this subject in earnest, and we are convinc-
ed it will produce an almost miraculous
change in the quality ofour butter, and also
in the price. The time has long sinccgone
by, though it may be in the memory of
many living, that cream that could not be
churned into butter was influenced by witch-
es. Therefore we do not thrust hot pokers or
flat-irons into the cream or drop a horseshoe
into the churn to dispel them, but we resort
to measures equally as absurd, in the eyes
of scientific men, such as dashing boiling
water in the cream regardless of temperature,
putting in soda or saltpetre, or adding a
lump of butter with which to sour the other
into coming; and yet after we have done all
this and labored many weary hours at the
churn, if the butter comes at all, there are
many defects in it. If you should fail to
notice those defects at the time, you will
sooner or later have them pointed out to
you by the polite middleman to whom you
go to market your surplus butter. VVith
many a knowing look he will taste and
smell of it and willperhaps call some clerk,
toassist in making the humiliation as great
as possible; and then when you are almost
dying with suspense, will say with a bland
smile: your butter is a little sour, I think
you let your cream stand too long; or your
butter is very poor color, and I am sure you
have salted it with barrel salt. If you should
acknowledge the latter he will immediately
tell you he could not pay you the market
price, for your butter was an inferior article.
01' if you happened to be one of his best cus-
tomers, and he hardly dare criticise you for
fear oflosing your trade, they will resort to
other means. A prominent groceryman did
this last summer. I was an eye witness
to the following: Two farmers who were
neighbors came to town together, each with
a quantity of butter for sale. This merchant
took both packages and weighed them with-
out a word and when asked the price said
eighteen cents, which afew moments before
he had told me was the highest market price.
They did their trading and went out, and I
said to him,“ how could you do that,you just
said you paid from sixteen to eighteen ac-
cording to quality, and ifI am to be ajudge
I should class the oneas butter and the other
as grease,“ So do I.” was the reply, “but they
are both good customers and asthey were to-
gether I could make no distinction, but,”said
he laughing,“I make it up; to tell the truth I
cheated him a little on weight, besides I will
make the good sell the poor.” From that day
I have been convinced that the farmers and
farmers’ wives must adopt a thorough system
,of butter making so that we can produce
butter of uniform quality,c0lor and flavor, so
that we may co-operate in the sale of our
product,if we ever expect to realize anything
for our labor. Now, to do this we must do
away with the old process as much as pos-
sible, and adopt the more modern impove-
ments which are used so extensively in’ other
States and with great success. We must
have in the first place good cows, well fed,
well watered and well cared for, plenty of
ice for summer use, if we have not flowing

' water, proper utensils for the care of our milk

and butter, and last, but not least, a will to
aceomplish"a reform. When this is done I

am satisfied it will be the final solution of
the poor butter problem in Michigan.
Farmers’ wives are not easily convinced
that a change would be of benefit. It is so
hard to get out of the oil rut. They have
learned to look upon this part of their do-
mestic duties as nothing lut drudgery and
that they will get through with it as easily
as possible, not thinking that a practical
knowledge of their work might make it a
pleasure. The farmer too does not like to
hear of a change, especially that of putting
up ice or buying a patent creamer. Too
many ofthem are like the old gentleman to
whom I had been showing our creamer and
giving my present method of making but-
ter, after I had explained it to him he said,
VVell, my old woman has made a pile ofbut-
terin her day and she didn't use no thermom-
eter nor dairy salt, nor wash it nuther, and
[never had any trouble to sell it. She has
got a good cellar for summer and a milk safe
for winter, (and I wanted to add to make out
the outfit, a few old pans with holes innum-
erable and rags drawn in, a stone churn
heavy enough fora man tolift, and a bowl
with acrack so large she could not wash the
butter if she wanted to. But I did not
and wallel until he had finished with)-
“And what more does she want?" Why
these new fanglcd notions may do for ‘‘you’'
but my woman would not use “em” if she
had “em,” and it looks to me as though it
was more bother than the whole thing is
worth. Now as I am taught in the Grange
to persevere, I will try and explain this same
process to you all; it is one which we have
been using for nearly a year pasl, and which
can be followed by any farmer who will
take the slight pains required. The success
all depends on the regulating of the process.
The work must be attended to properly, and
at the right time, and this in fact, is what
must be done in any business that succeeds.
To begin with, we had a windmill for the
purpose of pumping water, the derrick of
which had already been inclosed. We then
put in our crea111er,which will hold the milk
from eight or ten cans, and which we think
quite as good for all practicable purpose as
any of the patent ones, and can be built for
less than halfthe cost. Have a galvanized
iron tank made 22x32 inches square and 20
inches deep. Have a case made of matched
lumber large enough to go outside of this,
leaving three or four inches of space to be
filled with powdered charcoal,the hole finish-
ed with a cover made double, fitting closely
and hinged at one side. This you will per-
ceive is very much after the style ofa refrig-
erator. Now inside this tank have some
strips of zinc or galvanized. iron bent like
an elbow and soldered to the bottom in such
position as to hold the can in place. The
cans are round, six in number 1Sor 19 inches
deep and nine inches in diameter, and have
close fitting covers, also handles close to the
top to handle them with. The cans are so ar-
ranged that they are one and one-halfinches
apart. and about the same distance from the
sides of the tank, and are held in place at
the bottom by the catches already mention-
ed, and a slat hinged at one end and a catch
at the other,whlch keeps them from floating,
which of course theywould if not full of milk.
VVe also have ribs one-halfinch thick under
each can so as to allow the water to flow
under as well as around them,these cans hold
six gallons each. Water is pumped into a
house tank setting light side of the creamer
and connected bya pipe near the bottom. This
pipe must be put in before the charcoal
packing is done,so as to keep it from freezing.
Then the pipe for the outlet should be at
the other end from the one that introduces
the water, andjust so that the water will
come within an inch of the top of the milk
cans.

This pipe is the one that leads to the stock
tanks, and all the water pumped passes
through the creamer and around the milk
cans. Should there be no wind and you do not
wish to pump by hand, use ice to produce
the required temperature, which should not
be above 50 degrees for cream raising. Now
we have the creamer ready for the milk,
strain the can as full as convenient to han-
dled, cover and place in the creamer and let
stand until ready to skim,which will be from
12 to 24 hours according to the temperature of
the water. In skimming I use one of the cans
for cream and skim with a pint cup which
if handled carefully will not mix the cream
with the milk so but that you can get it all.
When the cream is skimmed and well stir-
red, cover and place in the creamer where it
will have an even temperature and will be
ready for churning the following day.

I believe much butter is spoiled by allow-
ing cream to stand in open vessels in a
changable temperature, as it often ferments
and thus loses its flavor. But if cream is
skimmed sweet and kept sweet, whatever
process you use, and only allowed a short
time to ripen in an even temperature it
surely must make good butter if the churn-
ing and working are properly done. In pre-
paring the cream for the churn,ifin summl r
it should be above the temperature required
for churning, which is 50°, it should be re-
duced by setting your can in cold water or
on ice, and in winter if below 60° it should
be raised by setting the can in warm water,
stirring frequently. After putting the cream
in the churn add a small quantity of liquid
butter color.

The latter I deem a very essential feature,
having tried it both with and without, and
am convinced that it makes a strictly gilt

can age-oases sass

edge which you must have a. uniform color
both summer any winter. The common
dash churn seems to be as good as any for a
small number of cows, although I do not use
one myself, having a patent one called the
"()hampion,” which I like Very well.

Now ifyou have a windmill, a few hours
labor will add an attachment for churning
which will do it as nicely as you can, thus
saving much time and labor, lhis of course
can only be done in summer as it would be
too cold in winter. The progress of the
churning should be carefully watched, and
when the butter has formed in particles as
large as a pea or larger draw or pour offthe
buttermilk, running it through a butler
sieve so as not to lose any of the butter.
Next pour over it a pail of moderately strong
brine, give it 9. few strokes of the dasher
which will cleanse it from all buttermilk
and cheesy matter quicker and better than
in any other way. Now raise from the churn
and moderately work in one ounce of pure
dairy salt to the pound and set away until
the next day, when it should be worked
again, working as much as possible by pres-
sure ifaladle is used so as not to spoil the
grain of the butter and make itgrcasy, work
sufficiently to remove the buttermilk and it
is ready for packing.

Here a question arises: \Vliat kind of
packages can we use, so that our butter may
retain the fine flavor it possesses when first
packed '2 It will avail us nothing if we
make the finest butter and pack itso defect-
ively that it loses its flavor in a short time.
This want has long been felt by dairymen,
especially those who wish to compete with
foreign markets. Prof. Arnold, ofltochesler,
;\'.Y., says the difference is not in the butter
but almost entirely in the packing, which
renders our butler inferior in foreign mar-
kets, andit seems surprising that some of
our enterprising owners of creamerles have
not made themselves acquainted with the
method of packing in foreign countries
especially the Danish which is said to be
very simple and one ol‘ the best. One of the
best packing cases I know of is called the
Bradley Patent. and is manufactured at
Sunderland,Vermont. They are round boxes
and range in capacity from one-half to ten
pounds. They are made of spruce and
saturated inside with a colorless, tasteless
and odorless parrafine wax, toprevent the
butter from coming in contact with the wood
and make them as nearly air, water and
grease tight as possible. They are very
light,five pound boxes,weighing only six oz.,
and are put up in crates of twelve boxes in a
crate. These are convenient to handle in
shipping or retail trade, their cost is one cent
per pound capacity at the factory, which
with freight added makes the cost about six
cents each here. Vile have used them
for nearly a year and shipped butter to De-
trolt, N. Y. and lndianapolis,Ind., and they
have given satisfaction in every instance.
Another advantage with them in small
dairies is that you can fill :3. box at each
churning and cover tight and not leave it
exposed to the air, which will soon spoil the
finest butter.

Brothers and Sisters, the method placed
before you may seem complicated to you,but
be assured if put into practice you would not
find it so, and the beauty of the process is
that it can not only be used in summer but
alsoin winter; it is a mistaken idea that we
must have ice to cool our milk in summer in
order to raise the cream, and must scald or
have our milk in a very warm room in
winter before it will rise.

Scientific men have done away with that
notion, for they nearly all agree on this one
point “that the colder milk can be kept
withoutfreezlng the quicker and better will
the cream rise.” It has also many other
advantages which I would like to mention,
and the most important one is the saving of
labor. 'l‘o illustrate this, it will require at
least eight of the common sized milk pans
to hold six gallons of milk, and at each
skimming they must be washed and scalded.
One can will hold the whole amount and can
be used two or three times without washing,
as the milk never stands long enough to
sour. Besides all the running up and down
stairs is done away with, these saving the
weary, house wife the largest part of this
branch of the work. Let me say in con-
clusion to you farmers who are wishing and
waiting for a course to be introduced into
our State Agricultural College where you
can have your daughters educated in these
domestic features, you may wait perhaps
for years, before your representatives see fit
to establish such a course, and in the mean-
time many a daughter will go out from her
home wholly uufitted to assume the new du-
ties which may be hers. These “ homely”
home duties are our duties. Bro. Patrons
open out you purse strings a little wider and
give your wife a. chance to avail herself of
some of the more modern inventions, and
who knows but your daughters may receive
instruction at home, so that their deft fin-

gers may fashion things of butter as beauti-
ful ano unique as the alto rezievo exhib-
ited at the Ceutennialamong the works of
art in Memorial Hall by Mrs. C. Brooks of
Arkansas, or that of Mrs. H. J. Wadsworth
of Minnesota, which comprised imitations
of baskets of nuts, birds, flowers and fanci-
fully shaped rolls, and were so exquisite in
their artistic beauty that they surpassed any
thing ever seen; “except” the celebrated
butter head at the Centennial, and took the
first prize not only for beauty but quality, at
the Wisconsin Dalrymen’s Convention.
MRS. MARY S. BHELPS.

Okemos, Mich.

‘ ing our whole social system.

Does a Man Support hiswife.

Dear Sisters and Brothers of the Vrsrron-—
The question under consideration is an im-
portant one-, as it has to do with the shape-
“Does a man
support his wife. she doing the work of the
household?" I am glad a subject has been
touched that has the power to awaken wom-
en to think, even to the expression of
thoughts aloud. I was fully aware when I
proposed this theme, that it would touch a
tender spot, and I was not surprised that it
brought out the other side of the question,
from the fact, that some are so fortunately
married, and are so tenderly shielded that
the east wind has never been allowed to blow
on them too harsely; hence they cannot com-
prehend how those less fortunate can have
reason to find that the l1]:l.I‘l‘le(l relation is
aught but lovely. “.Iusticla” and “Aunt Hat-
tie” have each treated the negative side of
the question plainly, as ourlimited space
will allow. I would like to have had more
of the remedy, but I feel that to those wom-
en who are true to themselves the “enigma
will be solved.” I have to do now with
Victorene. \Ve find in the first of her article
that she supposes a case, she does not take
it from real life. She says, “ Now a true and
an honest man," then, “lfa man usurps the
earnings of his vs ife, should at once he
‘led with the old bachelor.” And further-
more goes on to tell what a true husband
will do. You see she has an ideal (just as we
all do), she has made the great mistake of
picturing her ideal. instead of drawing on
her acquaintances for illustration. How-
ever, she has given one real case, and I have
no doubt it is her own. I will stop right here
and congratulate her, both on her husband’s
generosity and hlsabilily to gratify her every
wish, but she makes a mistake when she
says this is one among the majority. and I
will prove by her own words, that there is a
wrong in the public opinion of men regard-
ing the position thclr wives sustain to
ward them. She asks, why do woman mar-
ry 1’ and goes on to affirrn that they do mar-
ry to get a home, and a kind,loving husband
to take care of and protect them, but she in
turn expects not to sit down and fold her
hands, but to work for him ; heretofore she
workedfor other parties and received her
pay in money, but now she expects to work
for her husband,——how? what will she do?
Now, Victoriue, what did you say, labor for
and with him as he (she has not a choice in
the matter) shall think proper? Now are
you not rather hard on the man, who you
claim supports his wife. I should rather
think he simply directs her how to accom-
plish the most for the firm, of which she is
the silent partner. And should they live
together many years, she continues to do her
part of the work, in addition to the careof
children, and anxieties of added responsibil-
ity. Now, does the husband support his wife?
Let us,as women and honest men, disabuse
ourselves of that preposterous notion. As
women, capable of taking care of ourselves,
and our children when necessary,1et us throw
off the silly tradition that woman was made
on second thought,as a helpmate for man; she
is no more a help to him, than he is to her,
and we have every reason to think the idea
of male and female, was conceived in the
divine mind at the same time. Then there
is no superiority, only as each are superior
in their own individual qualities, or super-
ior organism or account of better parentage.
VVhen men and women take this view of the
matter the “enigma” will be solved. But I
will quote still farther, to show Victorine
that she reasons from a false basis. Please
read what she said about woman proving
herself worthy the position her Creator as-
signed her, and further said,if she had begun
right when the honey-moon was brightly
shining, . . . forjust as a wife begins so may
she ever expect to live. . . . A man's heart is
very pliable if only handled rightly.” Oh!
Victorlne,what a doctrine to advocate to the
rising genera! ion that a man must be manag-
ed. Now, is not this the painful secret?
men and women enter into the mar-
ried state with “part of the price
kept back"; their hearts are not laid
bare like an open book, but the
young wife begins to plot how she can man-
age her husband, feeling that if she makes a
mistake she must become subservient and
suffer the penalty all her wedded life. And
he in the first fruition of wedded bliss
notices little out-breaks of girlish freedom,
on the part of his beloved wlfe,and although
itcauses his noble heart many a_ pang, he
must hold a tight rein lest she out-wit him,
and become master of the situation. You
have drawn a true picture, I fear, but let us
rub it out, for many a warm generous heart
has been crushed in that process. Let us as
women take unto ourselves a better law,
even the law oflove, of right, of equality
and justice. I can well understand “Aunt
Hattie" that if we express our feelings on
this subject we will be subjected to insinua-
ting remarks, but my dear sister, we must
care more for right, than for the adulation
of the other sex. The idea that a man sup-
ports his wife, humiliates the woman, and
causes her to appear inferior, she feels a. timi

'dity in asking for money, lest he may think

she is presuming, for if he thought she
ought to have any, he would give it to her
‘without asking. And again, women who
have to ask for money (and there are many)
often go to town and trade and say to the
merchant, my husband will “foot the bill”

APRIL 15111, 1881.

when he comes in. Now iftlle husband has
the money in his pocket why did he not
take out his purse and hand it to his wife
before they left home, and trust to her good
sense how much she could alibrd to pay out.
If money makes men independent and gives
them influence-,it will do the same for wom-
en. In fact nothing gives a woman such a
sense of individuality and freo;-dom, as to
know that she can control property, have
money her very own. Hence I claim until
men will accord and women accept the
principle of equality, we cannot have a high
type of womanhood, and the children will
degenerate in proportion. There is much to
be said on this question and I hope other
Sisters (and Brothers too if they choose)
will take up other plia.-res of it, not for con-
troversy out for improvement; to benefitour
sex, and eradicate this evil of masculine
headship.
Mrs. (). M.SiK1~:s.
Keeler, Mar. :13, 1.551.

Hired Girls.

Iiro. Cobb.-—I have for some time been
thinking of asking the privilege of talking
through the columns of your paper to my
sisters on a subject which is of vital impor-
tance, namely, hired girls.

\Ve can scarcely meet each other and have
a little time for conversation, but we hear
the remark, “I have so much to do, so
little leisure ; I would cheerfully engage in
the temperance cause, l'or my sympathies
are there. I would gladly write something
for our Grange meeting and the paper, but I
have no time to even read the papers as I
desire, and really need to, that I may be pro-
pcrly informed on the topics of the day, for
you know ’tls almost impossible to get a
good hired girl or really any at all. We are
obliged to do the work ourselves.”

Now why this diliiculty to obtain help?
Are we in any way responsible i'or it‘? Let
us consider the matter a little. You attend a
public gathering and there is no lack of
girls, many of them young and dependent,
no means of support but their own labor,
else be a burden to friends. You say to one
of them, that you would like some one to
assist in doing your house work. How
quickly she resents it, saying, I know I am
poor, but I am not going to be a druilge for
any one; a hired girl is nobody. I am go-
ing to be a milliner, a dress-maker or per-
haps I can be clerk in a. store, or an office.
I say my friend, you do not propose to work
without compensation ,<lo you? Of course not,
I shall get fifty centsa day. And board,I ask.
Oh no, I shall board myself. I reply if you
have the good fortune to have friends to
provide a home for you free of expense, you
may do well, otherwise what will you save
for clothing, and also will you not be a
hired girl then?

Now I will give you $2.00 per week, fur-
nish you a home. and treatyou with respect,
corresponding with your deportment. She
replies, society will not recognize me worthy
of respect, I shall be nothing but your
kitchen girl,and I_am not willing to make
the ‘sacrifice. Sisters, is not this too true. Is
not society at faultin this respect? You
answer, much ofour help in the kitchen are
foreigners and we can do nothing with
thenf. That in a measure may be true, but
now that element I believe is capable of im-
provement, but we desire to confine our re-
marks more particularly to our own girls.
Why should the girl that writes at the desk,
trims hats, makes our dresses, be considered
superior to the one that prepares our food.
Which is most essential to life and happi-
ness, and which skill is of most value to the
human family? that which arranges our
ribbons and flowers, our ruffles and tucks,
or that which prepares sweet. nutritious
bread and butter, and the various ar-
ticles of food and luxuries, which we have
learned to treat as necessaries? What
sweetens the disposition of the husband and
father more than the nice doughnut, and
delicious cup of coffee, breakfast on time,
no confusion, house in order, shirts nicely
washed and ironed ready for use, with no
missing buttons? These are realities that
must be met in every household.

How necessary that our girls receive prop-
er training in this school, for they are to be
the future wives and mothers. We should
strive to elevate labor in this department.
Many a girl with 9. pale face sits stitching
from morn till night, and part of that, con-
scious that she needs varied exercise and
would gladly engage in house-work, but for
the stigma attached to the service. This
ought not to be. If we were conscious that
this is wrong, we should have independence
to carry out our convictions of right.

Because a girl is poor and dependent, and
is willing to relieve us of labor and care, she
should not be despised, but rather she
should be commended, and if ambitious to
obtains. respect-able position in society she
should be encouraged. Society is continu-
ally changing. The rich of to day may be
the poor of to-morrow. The girl in your
kitchen may become the wife of a future
millionaire.

While we have an opportunity, we should
by precept and example strive to improve
this class, that they may be the better pre-
pared to fill their various stations in life.
Thus may we mutually be benefited, and

in a measure carry out the .divine injunc-
tion, “Do unto ot era as you would that
they should do unto you.” ‘

AUNT CLARA.


APRIL 15TH, 1881.

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HUNTING EGGS.
s. M. wsrsn, IN “cnnrsrrarz n.\'xo‘.v.”

“ Who wants to hunt eggs? ” shouted Charley the
“ W'ho warits to climb on the hay ? ” .
“Oh, I l’'‘ “ Yes, and I!" clauiored Fannie and

ll ,
“And me too! ”

pleaded three-year-old May.

30 they rushed to the barn helter-skeltcr, and soon
“fete diving about with a vest

In the corners and rafters, the manger and hay,
To see who could find the first nest.

“And who gets the most eggs shall beg Grandma to
bake
A cake we can share all around : "
So Fannie suggested; the boys cried “Hurrah Y
We'll have every egg to be found!”

Nimble Charley went clambering about like a eat,
And soon counted “One, two, three, four!"

And then with the pearly-white eggs in his hat,
Slid carefully down to the floor.

4‘ There's a nest 1” Fannie cried from for up in the
mow,
“Right here in the hay ! One. two, three!"
And in her white apron she gathered them up,
As happy and glad as could be.

“Old Speckle’s on mine !" Shouted Will, but just
then
With a. c- ckle, away the hen flew.
“ Dear me ! " said poor Will, “ I was sure I would

beat,
And here I've got only two i ”

“ Where's May ? " they all questioned, “ Oh, where
has she gone ‘H "
“ Here, here I is l I’se foun' 3. nos ’ ! " ,
And her curly brown head from the manger popped

up.
Just under the nose of Black Bess.

" Oh, oh! Sit still, Mav, or the horsey may bite?”
But she counted, -‘ ne, two, fee. four, five 1 "
And they rushed to her rescue with laugh and with
shout-
“ She's got the most, sure as you live I "

But there she was sitting in sweetest content.
And down in her snug little lap

Five soft little kittens lay rolled into balls,
Contentedly taking a nap.

Uncle Nine Rejoices.

Dear 1Veph.ews and 1\'icces:———Your Uncle
is happy that so many of you are enabled to
be of a nearer relation, that is, _you can be-
come brothers and sisters in the Grange.
Oh, that will be joyful. Fourteen opens the
mystic gate to you now. Let us have a
grand gala day in honor of the event. You
have, many of you, waited long and patient
ly to be sixteen, and now you can come at
fourteen and join the Grange. Now for fun.

A lesson to the old folks. Put your heads
together, all of you, and make a large class
from the jurisdiction of each Grange and
send in your petitions at once. You can
take the degrees in two meetings. The last
meeting when you will become full mem-
bers will be near the last of May, when the
fields will be green, and the forests in full
leaf, and the flowers plenty. Then for the
feast. Tell the Grange you want a good one,
a grand May day banquet, the biggest time
they ever had. Fun and frolic until the
sober old men and women will wish they
were young again.

Come, young men and maidens. Come
one and all, who have a farm and its home,
and till the soil. Come join the Grange,
and make it gay and festive on the coming
beautiful May. Come in the spring of life,
and the spring of the year, and make 9.
merry, happy throng. -

Come, Ben,and bring Fanny, no matter if
her parents do not belong. Now, Sue:
Tom only needs a hint, give him a sly one,
and help make one of this merry Mayday
party. The Goat! Oh, yes, he is all right,
fat and sleek, ready for the fun. Don’t I
wish I was one of the proper age, wouldn't
I havejusta little of this sport and good
times?

What Grange will have the largest class ?
Write and let your Uncle know how many
new brothers and sisters he is to have as
soon as the petitions are in.

In the charming month of May I hope to
Say

Yours fraternally. '
UNCLE NINE.

From the Nieces and Nephews.

Uncle Nine :——Pardon my intrusion, if so
it seems to you, but I think you said this
column was to be for the benefit of youths
from fourteen upward, and by the last two
papers I should judge it was an infants’ de-
partment. Now I hardly think it fair to al-
low them to usurp the place which you prom-
ised to us, who have never been given a cor-
ner ln any paper, while they have the “ Lit-
tle Granger" all to themselves, and 9. col-
umn in most every paper. Besides, I think
it will be of more benefit to us older ones,
who are preparing ourselves to enter the
Grange, and need some way in which to im-
prove our minds. We can have nice little
discussions upon -any subject which we
choose, and will help to draw out those who
do not know that they can write. And in
this way it will assist us to be more compe-
tent when wejoin the Grange. to take an
active part. for we do not wish to be “ wall-
tlowers " in that grand institution. Now
"Uncle Nine,” you promised to give us a
clue by which we might find your age. You
have not fulfilled that promise. Will you
please advise a course of reading for us?
and what do you think is the benefit derived
from the study of Shakespeare? I send greet-
ing to the Steward of Grange, No. 597.

Your Niece, Swnrrr Bnun.

Keenan, Mich., Mar. 21st. 1881.

Uncle Nine.-—-May I tell the little Patrons
abouta sand hill there is in our vicinity?
It is called “ Thunder Mountain,” or
“Thunder Knob.” It is composed of the
loose, shifting sand of the Lake shore: it is
so high, that, standing on the summit, you
can look away down on the surrounding
timber, mostly tall pines, and see a couple
of small villages seven or eight miles dis-
tant. It is on the shore of Lake Michigan,
and the sand blowing up from the beach, on
to it continually, has buried some of the
large pine trees on its sides to within twelve
feet ofthe top 2 nearly all the timber growing
on it is partially covered up. It derived its
name from the habit of thundering. A par-
ty of young ladies had scaled it one bright
morning, when, without a moment’s warn-
ing, there was a sound of distant thunder,
emphasized by a slight shake. The sky
was cloudless, and scarcely a breath of air
stirring. One young lady took a farewell
look on sky and earth, and made a rush for
the foot, and the rcst,——well, we followed her.
It rumbled and thundered at short intervals,
shaking slightly all over. A few years ago,
there was a small house near its base, and it
shook till it rattled the dishes in the cup-
board, and rang a bell hanging agaimt the
wall. It frightened the owner, till he_mov-
ed away, and no one has tried living near it
since Different people have different the-
ories, about its so-called thundering. Some
think that the Lake rolls under it, and
(eaves off from the interior, causing the re-
port and the jar. It is located about half
way between St. Joe and South Haven. It
is a very picturesque place, with the yellow
sand,juniper bushes, trailing arbutus, and
the grand old pines. There is a “ sand slip "
between the “Knob” and the Lake. The
sand blows up from the beach over the edge,
and formsa convex on the side from the
Lake, the east, and a concave on the west,
the side toward the Lake. It is as smooth
as marble. You approach it from the north,
by a narrow ridge, so narrow that two can-
not pass abreast, and to the north you look
down into a ravine so dark and deep, it
looks weird, with the tree tops so far below;
and from thence to the fiat top of the “slip,”
where you can look down into the valley
between it and the “ Knob." You can
stand on the “slip” and starts slide of sand
and watch it gliding gracefully seventy-five
feet down its perpendicular face, and two
moments after there is no trace of the slide.
Between the “slip” and “ Mountain,” there
is 24. bed of moss that the sun never shines
on; the “Knob” screens it from the rising
sun, the dense foliage of the pine from the
noon-day sun, and the “slip" from its set-
ting rays. The warmest, most breathless
days there is a cool, dump seat. Now one
look on the round basin-like valley, with
its shrubs and vines, then one to the “ slip,”
without a spear of vcgetation, except a few
blades of long, blue gras ’round the crest,
like the “scanty locks ’round the bald
crown; ” then we'll continue around on the
ridge to that kingly pine, deep scarred with
jack-knife initials of visitors for the last f(>r-
ty years. Now give me your hund,—ste=ady
there! draw your brealh after that down-
hill scramble,——look up to the “Knob” from
the south, and wc’ll follow this dark ravine
back with its solitude, its wintcrgrceus, its
fresh pine odor, and drowsy murmur of the
breeze so many, many feet above us, then
one more dash to the pebl_»l_v beach, and
away for home. A G-}<Ax(;r:r. Gum.

COLOMA. Mich., Apr. 7, 1881.

Uncle 1V£nc, (Ten or 1a"evcn).-—l have
noticed the interest Which has been taken
in the columns of the VlSI'I.‘()R in answering
and asking questions, and thought perhaps
I could think of something to purzlo you.
“ May,” the largest peninsula is Africa.
Can you tell its area‘.-‘ 'l‘he l’acifi:.- ocean
was first entered by Balboa. (fan you tell
what country he was a native oft’ “Fred,”
I cannot answer your question, but I hope

some of the young folks can, because if they
do not. you will not think we are very well
informed about our own State. But do you
know what is the largest lake in Michigan ‘P
\Vill Ethelyn Spaulding please send me
her address? I intend to join the Grange
this summer, and if the goat behave:-: well
and I survive the climbing of the greased
pole, you will hear from me again.
Yours truly,
ELLA SI’.-\UI.l)lNG.

Orleans, Mioh., April 3d.

Uncle Nine:—I am a small boy, but I
have a great big heart for the Grange. Pa
and me. are members of Clear Lake Grange,
N o. 530. Pa has been Master several years,
and has been Overseer, Secretary, Purchas-
ingAgent, and Store-keeper. Pa has sold
his farm here, and next fall we will move
up into Crawford county, where there is no
Grange. I hope there will be a Grange
there by the time I am old enough to join.
I have two brothers older than I. They
have gone away over twenty miles to visit
Grandpa Sessions, and to get warm maple
sugar to eat. Pa, ma, my little sister May,
and I went there last week on a visit, while
my two brothers stayed at home to do the
chores. My oldest brother is a member of
the Order. Now, Uncle Nine. if this ain’t
worth printing, throw it into the waste
basket, and 1 won’: cry a bit, but will try
and do better next time. Perhaps some
time I will send you some money. so that
you can send me your picture. I wouldlike
your autograph. Yours truly,

Kim: N. Iflvkss.

Fenwick, April 4th, 1881.

Uncle Ninc:——I am as much interested in
the letters from the young folks, that I will
send you another letter, as I see that my let-
ter did not get lost, although I feared it had,
as it was so long in making its appearance.

I will try to answer Ada’s question about
Northern lights. Philosphers are of difl"er-
ent opinions as to the cause of aurora bore-
alis, or Northern lights. Professor Hell
ascribed it to the refiection of the sun and
moon by the clouds of snow and needles of
ice, which are constantly floating in the
atmosphere of the frigid zones. Marion
supposed it to be from the atmosphere of the

sun. Baily ascribed it to magnetism. Kast-
ner considered Polar lights as the electricity
of the earth rising periodically to the poles.

I think I809, ISI8, 1827, lS36, ete., or any
year that can be divided by nine, have the
same peculiarities as the birth-year of your
father.

I will send you a puzzle; also would like
to ask why the bottom of a tea-kettle is cool,
while the water in it is boiling.

I am composed of thirteen letters:

My lirst is in Jack, also in Jennie,

My second is in quarter, but not in penny,

My third isin answer, but not in question,

My fourth is in beast, also in benton,

My fifth is in nun, but not in least,

My sixth is in bread. but not in yeast,

My seventh is in run, but not in pm).

My eighth is in rim, but not in glen,

My ninth is in stand. also in grand,

My tenth is in grand, but not in stand,

My eleventh is in horxc-st_\,', also in l)'»unty,

My t,\\'(-,lf[h in in town, also in county,

My thirteenth nnd last, is the end of the
name of the lcacllcr who t‘-night the
last Hchool my mother attended.

I-)m.i-:.

Sm«;Rwoon, April lib, 152%].

THE REAPER, DEATH.

PRID1_u'EN.~-—I)ied at her residence in Algansce,
l\Iich., Feb. 2:"), 1831, in the 52nd year of her uga
Sister Dl£Il(\P.A}I Ax}: l’s1ner.x, 51 member of Union
Grange, N0. M8.

VVIU-:Iu~;As, It has pleased our divine Master above
to call from earth's field of labor another of our most
faithful members, therefore be it

Resolved, That, while we bow with reverence to
His decree, we deeply mourn, with sorrowing hearts,
our own and loss.

Itesolved, That we tender our heartfelt sympulhy
to the family of our loved sister, and commend them
to the care of Him who doeth all things well.

Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon
the minutes of the Grange, a copy presented to the
family of the deceased, and also to the GRANGE Vis-
ITOB. for publication.

Mus. E. Ki-:Li.r,

Mus. N. E. Bssnuzv,

Ms. E. Kl’.Ll.Y.
lluirmitfee.

VVlIITE.—Died. at his residence in Alton, Mich.,
March 19, 1881, Bro. l. W. Wmrx-'.. aged -11; years.
Deceased wns o. niemher of Alton Grange, No. 631.
The following rcsoliitiom were adopted as n tribute
to his memory:

Re.s'o.’zrcd, That by the death of our brother the
Grange is called upon to mourn the loss of on earn-
nest, faithful worker, onc cver ready and foremost in
the good work of our Order, ready to stand firmly
for the right against all opposition. Of him it may
be truly said, “ He hath done what he could." Let
us tenderly cherish hia memory and imitate his
virtues.

Resolved, 'l‘laal, as by his death We ure reminded of
the uncertainty of life, we heed the admonition, “ Be
ye also re:-u.i_\'."

Resolvr.-=11, That we in.-x:(l».\r our bereaved sister and
her family our llearifl lt s_vrupa.th_v, and b aseoch our
Heavenly Father to give thcni gmco und support in
this their time of .~10TrnW.

1h»ro/red, That us as token of lo;-pcct for our depart-
ed brothcr, the charter of our Grange be draped in
mourning for ninety days, and that these resolutions
be placed upon the record of the (irzuigc and publish-
eal in the GP..i:.'mc \'i.~;xron and Lowell Journal, and
that ll copy be presented to the l.7’3l‘8l2\'0Il family.

» 7.. H. Covssr,
line. C. Covnnrr,
J. L. COVERT,

Committee.

l3.\ll'l‘lI()LO‘.\IEW. -- \\’nsRr..-is. We have been
called lo mourn the lo as of our dearly beloved
sister, Mrs. Sarah L. llurtlioloiiiew; and

‘u\'n1:P.ic.\s, We feel this great loss the more sensi-
bly from the fact that only a few years have elapsed
since her husband, our honored brother, was taken
from us in the springtime of life: therefore

lfesolved, That in the death of our beloved sister.
our Grunge and her associates have lost a bright nnd
shining light, whose unobtrusive presence, quiet de-
meanor and words of wisdom will long be treusured
in the lll$'n'l()F.'y of her brothers and sisters in the
Grangec of Berrien county, and also in the hearts of
neighbors and friends in the church and Sabbath
school, who have so long looked to her sustaining
hand and wise councils for support and advice; but

’ more especially will her only relatives, n loving sis-

ter and orphan boy of twelve years, miss the loving
kindness of tiiull‘ dear departed sister and mother.

Iwvolzvezi, ’l"lis.t our sincere sympathy is hereby
tendered to the friends nrd relistivcs of our departed
si;-ter. .

Resolved That. [1 copy of these resolutions be en-
tered on the records of Luke Grange. No. 84, a copy
be presented tothe family of the ll(‘.f)9B.R8d, a copy
be tendered for adoption to Berrisn County Orange,
and also sent to the Vislros for publication.

W. A. Bsown,

M. L. Ronsnns.

MAGGIE Msns,
Committee.

ST0l‘tEY.—Died at her home in Pine Grove, Van
Buren county, Mich., Feb. ‘.26, LUCY M. Srosxr. wife
of Wm. ll Storey. aged 38 years. The committee of
Kendall Grange, No. 230, of which she was a men-
l-or, to whom was given the task of drafting resolu-
tions of respect, submitted the following and moved
their adoption:

Wni~:or:As, The Reaper, Daath, has again invaded
our ranks and removed from our midst a beloved
sister; therefore be it

Resolved, That. while we bow in humble submis-
sion to the mindates of Toy divine will, we deeply
mourn the loss of a useful and much-loved member
of our Order ; and while we realize th:1t_to her all
earthly labor is ended, yet to us who remain are ad-
ded cares and responsibilities. In future may her
memory be ever dear to us, and let us emulate her
virtues and try to be as worthy members of this fra-
ternity as was our sister.

Resolved, That this Grange tender its sympathies
to the bereaved family in their ofiiiction; that our
charter be draped in mourning for thirty days, and
that a copy of these resolutions be presented to the
family of the deceased, a copy spread upon the rec-
ords of the Grange, and a copy sent to the GRANGE
VISITOR for publication. (lmzuz Po\vs.i.L,

ALLEN Omcnn,
(JKOEGK Nznsox.
Committee.

VIBRATOR HARROW.

Agents
Wanted.

Cuts Six. Eight and Ten F‘eet:.
Best Harrow mode. Cuts every inch of ground,
and adapted to all kinds of soil. Peculiar shape of
tooth makes it easy of draft, and leaves the ground.
light and mellow. Believes itself of all obstructions.
Bundled very compact for shipment.

PHELPS &. HIGELOW ‘V. 31. C0..

Kalamazoo, Illoh.

To the Patrons and Farmers of Michigan:
Mjrgs nndprsigned, having charge of the sale in

ts ELF‘-SH ARI’ENING

SLIP PLOW POINTS,

And having satisfied himself that SAID POINTS
ARE SUl’EP.IOR. TO ANY ever offered to the pub-
lic, desires to place them in the hands of every farmer
for use, at the earliest moment. and at the least possi-
ble expense. He asks the co-operation of all Patrons
nnd Farmers in this important work.

One of these Shares, with threa Points (costing
(_'>.‘~l.l0), will wear as long as 12 common points (cost-
ing 50 cents each), making a saving of $4.90 upon
the} labor performed. Extra slip I’oint.~:, 17) cents
631C i.

’I‘l.e.=e Shares are fitted (or will be) to all the lead-
ing plows in use, are made of the best pig iron, chill-
ed to a hardness to give the best possible wear. This
Point, being reversible. gives a sharp point until it is
worn out.—~cnu:=,ing the plow to run level. draw and
hold much easier nnd to do

THE BEST WORK VVITII THE LEAST LABOR

to mrn and team, which gives the best satisfaction to
the plowmnn.

A Good Live Man VVauied in every Town-
ship to take orders for these Points. PRICE, one
Share. complete. and two extra points, 81.10. No
money to be paid until goods are delivered. Those
wishing to take orders must address,

J. I*I. BUSH.
Fowler, Clinton County, Mich

Gcrnian Horse and Cow Powders.

_ This powder has been in use for many years. It
IS largely used by the farmers of Pennsylvania, and
the Patrons of that State have bought over 100,000
pounds through their purchasing agents. Its compo-
sition is no secret. The receipt is on every box and
5-pound package. It is made by Dr. L. Oberholtzer's
Sons it Co.,_Phoenixville, Pa. It keeps stock healthy
and in good condition. It helps to digest and assimi-
late the food. Horses will do more work, with less
food while using it. Cows will give more milk and
be in better condition. It keeps poultry healthy, and
increases the production of eggs. It is also of great
value to them when molting. It is sold at the lowest
wholesale price by R. E. JAMES, KLLAMAZ00,
GEO. W. HILL 5: CO , 80 WOODBRIDGE S'r.. DE-
rnorr. and J. M. CHAMBERS, 163 So. WATER S'r.,
Cnxcsoo. Put up in 60-lb. boxes (loose), price Eioxrr
CENTS per 1b., 30—ll>. boxes (of 6 5-113. packages, TEN
Cnnrs per lb.

IMIICLESIIG-.A..N' CENTRAL R. ER.
m:rAu'1‘Uiur. or TRAINS I-‘ROM KALAMAZ00.

TIM E-TABLE -— MAY 9, 1880.
wss'rVv.x no.

Night Expr:-as ...... -.

Arc;-ulmod:itiun lonvs--a
“ nrri

.\Ixil _-__

Day lixpn-as __________ _-

N:-w York, Atbunic, and Puciflc hxpressos and Load Passen-
gal‘ uuily. All oib.-r trains daily except Sunday.
H. B. l.i:nrAkD, Gen lllounger, Detroit.
H. C. llnows; Ami‘: Gen. Supt., .lnckzion.
lil-:\Rll‘ C. \\'»;:vr'vvomn, G P. h T. A., Chicago,

L S.&1\d-S.R.R.

KALAMAZ00 I)iv1.s'roN Tum TAIELK.

(Time 1.’: minutes faster than Knlumszoo.)
GOING _fiOCTII.

’ ‘P  " ""rfi‘?c',:€f‘& in
Idxpreix-a_1h'x & Ml

SODAM 4:$0ri:' 500AM
.. 3,0 i.

:' “ 1135 “

lliorx
840"
{EU "

Wily Fr.
i.«-'.'1;{m.}iTi2.]Ii

Ar. l:ufl'alo:_ ................... _-
GOING NORTH.

Ar. Kalamazoo .__
Ar. Allegun .
Grand Rapids ______________ ....

PAH iralnslclohuoct at White Pigeon with trains on main line.
A. G. Ansnxs,
Supt. Xnluninmo Division, Kalamazoo.

CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
Time-Table-January 2d, 1881.

WESTWARI).

Day Lansing!

lixpreol. Express.

No. 2. No. 6.
7 1.5 ml 415 PM

7 25 “
8 48

9 20

_ l0 07

10 54

*Mixed.
17. ‘PER iIiiE{{__--._.: ........ --
Grand Trunk Junction _____ -_
I mlay Clty-_----.._-.._ -..- ----

PtHur'n .
. Express. .§1,:x'1%'
No. 6. ‘ ‘

Vicksburg ______ --
Battle’ Crook--_-_
Charlotte ----..
Lansing _______ ..
Durand -

Irnlsy Clfy_____-.__.:-:..
G. T. Junction-__.__

Port Hnron_-_----.._,__--____.
‘Carry passengers with tickets.
All trains run by Chicago time. All trains daily except

Sunday. This is the only line running its entire train through

between Port Enron and Chicago without chuigo.

Cass. B. Pxcx, W. H. Yrrrmon,
Genornl Manger. Au’: Superintendent

For information no to rams, npply to J. A. Bordeaux, local

Agent, Schoolornft, Mich.

HUS BA_l\l'_DMAN.

SEVIINTII YI*]AR.

Reduced Price l

($1. A YEAR $1.

The IIUSISANDMAN l‘l.'l5 becn widely recognized on
standing in the front rank of u.gn(:ul!ur:Ll journalism.
VVhile treating fully all questions einbmcod in

[’RAC'l'ICAl. AGRICULTURE,
it discusses with fearless ability the economic prob-
lems that effect all productive industries. It strives
earnestly to incite thought, broaden conception and
increase umlerstanding of the wrongs through which
agriculture has suffered, especially
THE Ul\'JU.'.3'l‘ TAXATION

frstexiod upon it, and the hurtful discriminations by
which its products are cheapencd below the coat of
the labor employed in their production.

It would stimulate sclf—rcspo<‘.t among farmers
throughwell-applied thought, fitting them to repre-
sent their industry through the halls of legislation
as a vital necessity to national prosperity.

_All the well-known features of the IIUBP-ANDMAN
pull be maintained, including full reports of the
umons

ELMIRA FARMERS’ CLUB DISCUSSIONS

and from time to time editorial letters of travel and
observations abroad.

ITS LIST (IF CON TRIBUTORS

will embrace many writers whose work has already
added largely to the interest and value of its columns.
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A FREE COPY will be sent to any person who
forwards in one order the names and addresses of ten
subscribers, new or old, with ten dollars in payment
therefor.

Remittances may be made by draft on New York,
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Drafts, Postofiice money orders, and checks should
be made payable and all letters addressed to

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ELMIBA, N. Y.
Wt!

PAMERICAN MANUAL
PARLIAMENTARY

L AW.

Is recognized by the leading parliamentarians of the
land as the most complete, concise and systematic
work on tho modern practice. Every citizen of this
republic should have a copy.

t has received strong testimonials from Samuel
E. Adams, Past Master of the National Grange ; Sen-
ator Ferry, ex-Vice-President of the U. S., and from
the chief executive ofiicer of the following and other
fraternal organizations, viz: Knights of Honor.
Knights and Ladies of Honor, Knights of Pythias,
Royal Arcanum, Foresters, Grand Army of the Re-
public, Knights Templar. A. (). VV.. R. T. of T.,
I.  G. T., A. J. O. K. S.1l.,I. O. B. 13., etc.
Circular of Ihstimonials sent on application. Prices
(by mail, prepaid), cloth, .30 cents ; plain leather. 75
cents; leather tuck.-1. 81.
Address, stating where you saw this advertisement,

GIQORGE T. FISH.
42 Arcade, Rochester, N. Y.

Sample copies free on application.

AN EIGHT PAGE. FORTY COLUMN PAPER,
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF AGRI-
CULTURE IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.

CHEAPEST PAPIEE PUBLISHED!

Many of the sblost farmers and writers of Weston
Michigan are regular contributors to the World and
Homestead. The series of articles now running, on-
titled “ Farmers’ Relation to Law,” being an exhaus-
tive treatise of the law of highways, titlesffences.
drainage, estrays. patent-rights, otc., etc., are well
worth five times the subscription price of the paper.

The Grange interests and Grange news form I
special feature, and are at all times fully represented.

The Home Department is in the hands of a proo-
tical housekeeper, and is carefu‘ly and ably con-
ducted.

Its market reports are fuller and more reliable
than can be found in any other paper published In
Western Michigan.

TERMS.——8l 50 per your; trial trip (three months)
for 25 cents (eight three-cent stamps).

Subscriptions can commence at any time. Send
stamp for sample copies. Address,

F. M. CARROLL A: 00.,
25 Cmur. Srnxzr. — — GRAND Bums, Mxcn.

N. B.—'I'ha Agricultural World and GRANGE VII-
rroa both one year for 81.75.

PRICE LIST OF SUPPLIES

Kept in the omce of the Secretary or the
MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE,

And rent out Poet Paid, on Receipt of Cash Order,
over the seal of a Subordinate Granga, aqdthg
signature of its Hatter or Secretary.

Porcelain Ballot Marbles, 1- him
Blank Book, ledger ruled, r Secretary to keep
accounts with members, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , ..
Blank Record Books, (Egpross paid), . . . . . . . . ..
Order Book, containing 1 Orders on the Trees-
urer, with stub, well bound,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,
Receipt Book, containing 109 Receipts from
Treasurer to Score , with stub, well bound,
Blank Receipts for dues, per 100, bound.
A plications for Membership, per 100, . . . . . . ....
embenvhgp Cards, per l00,.... ............. ..
Withdra. Cards, per doz., . . . ..
Dimits, in snvelo . pe
By-Logs of the tote G-range, single copies we,
r oz., .......... . .
By?—eLs.ws, bound,...... .... 
Patrons‘ Singing Book, with music, Single copy
15 cts. per doz., ..... ... ........ ... . . . . . . . . ..
Rituals, single copy,.... ..  .... .... .... ....
H Xi; oz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . , _
Blank “ "clan of Association" for the Incorpo-
ration of Subordinate Grunges, with Copy of
'Charter,alloomplote,.......... ..............
Notice to Delinquent Members, per 100, . . . . . . . _
Declaration of Purposes,. per doz., 6c.; per
hundred, .............................. . . . .
American Manual of‘ Parliamentary Law. . . . .
[I II I I‘

15 (‘MO_

ri-coTuck,‘j...... . . . . . . . . .  ......... ..
Address of J’. . Woodman before the Nation-
al Grange—per dozen .....  ........... ..
Address of Thos. K. B echer per dozen... . . .
Digest of Law sand Rulings, . . . . . . . .

Address,

................o...

100

20
10
 .... .. 40
J. T. COBB,
8190’: men. Bun Gannon.

BGHOOLCBAFT. K103-


........-—--

 

rnn cannon visions. ‘

APRIL 15111, 1881.

A Model Patron.

Lsomnas, St. Joseph Co. , 1
Apr. cm, 1881. 1

Bro. Cobb .-—I believe that a man should
show his faith in any cause by his works.
Acting on this principle, I went to town
meeting last Monday, and herewith send
you the result of my day’s work,--45 names
for the \'isi'roR for three months, and two
for a year, all outside the gate. Enclosed
find $5.50. We hope the good seed thus
sown may fall on ‘good ground, and bring
forth a plentiful harvest.

Fraternally yours,
H. N. ADDISON.

JERUSALEIII or BRAZILIAN
ARTICHOKES.

WILL sell a. few bushels of JERUSALEM OR
I BBAZILIAN ARTICHOKES for Il.00 per
Bushel, delivered at depot, Vicksburg, Mich.
April 15th, 1881. D. T. DELL.

SEED 1=lo?rA-roars.

URBANK SEEDLINGS, -$1.00: BEAUTY OF
HEBRON, 81.50 per bushel, sacks included,
delivered at depot here. J. H. GARDNER.
apr.l5-2t. ' Centreville, Mich.

GGS FOR HATCHING. From all the varieties
of poultry, Brahmas, Cochius, Hamburgs, Polish
Leghorns, Plymouth Rocks, Roan Cauga, Pekin and
Alesbury Ducks. Eggs carefully packed from our
prize birds at 81.50 per 13. Four or more settings at
$1.00 per 13. Our Plymouth Rocks and Pekins a e
never been heat. A few first-class fowls and Berk-
shire pigs to spare. Smith & Bro.,
api-15,2m Srosv Buoox, N. Y.

Plymouth Rooks

--AND-—

Partridge Cochins!

My Plymouth Rocks
are from Keefer’s noted
strain ; my Partridge
Cochins are from
Pierce’s prize - win-
ning strain. Weaned
(lliickcns for sale
in early Summer.
Eggs in season.
Send for Circular to

rrf. B.ilde, Uusllerlllle, Mich.

A. VANDENBERG,

MANUFACTURER,
WHOLESALE axn RETAIL Deanna IN

HARNESS, WHIPS, BLANKETS, TRUNKS, lit,

92 hlonroe Street.
' ‘ G‘n_'x.\"l! RAPIDS, MICH.

I take pleasure in presenting to your favorable con-
sideration my CASH PRICE LIST of Harness Work
—EAND MADE—all of my own manufacture, and
also to return thanks for the liberal patronage I have
received from the dilierent Graiiges throughout Mich-
igan. I shall do in the future as in the p.ist—furnish
the best goods for the least money.

Farm Harness, White Trimmed Breeching,
Round Lines, Snaps, Rum Straps, and
spread rings, complete, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829 00

The same without Br: eching, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 O0

" “ withflat Lines,     28 00

“ “ “ “ " without breeching,. . 2-5 00

 

V Double Light Buggy Harness, white trimmed,

from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825 to 30 00
The same, N ickle Trimmed, from . . . . . .335 to 50 00
Single Buggy Harness, with round lines, white

trimmed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 00
Same with flat   l2 00
Nickle Trimmed, . . . . . . .815, $16, $18, $20 and 25 00

ALL ORDERS RECEIVED UNDER SEAL OF
THE GRANGE
will be shipped at once, and may be returned at my
expense if not entirely satisfactory.
Address all orders to
Yours very respectfully, _ '

A. VANDENBERG,

92 Mormon Srasar, Guam) Bums.

TRANSPORTATION FREE l

READY MIIKED PAINTS,

Paris Green and London Purple.

The use of Ready Mixed Paints is now almost
universal. The public, during the last few years,
have learned from practical tests that a Paint thor-
oughly ground and mixed by machinery, in appro-
priate colors. ready for immediate use upon the
opening of a ackage, is more economical, and
gives better satisfaction than Paints mixed by hand
in small quantities, and colored bya novice.

THE PATRONS’ PAINT WORKS
MANUFACTURE
IlllGEB.SOLL’S READY MIXED PAINTS,

and sell them nxcnusrvxnv to

Patrons of Husbandry.

These Paints were among the very first of their
kind put upon the market, and they have been sold
throughout the United States upon their merits for
many years.

Our Prices for 1881 are more liberal than
ever. Send for our Book, with Sample Color
Cards and Brush Patterns.

“Every Man his own Painter" Mailed Free.

Address,
A. M. //VGE/98011.

PROPRIETOR.
162 South St., - - New York City.
6 mo
SEEDS, SEEDS,

TE
Patrons’ Seed Catalogue, 1881.

Fresh, Reliable and Guaranteed,
Garden, Flower and Field seeds.

§'Every Package of Seeds stamped with the
you in which it was grown.
Send postal oardfor Catalogue. To get the Patrons‘
discount sheet, give the number of your Grange.
A

SAMUEL WILSON, Seed-grower,
Mechnnicsville, Bucks Co., Pa.

Farmers and Patrons
of the “VISITOR,”

ARE you in need of a

WIND MILL ?

If so, read the following:

THE UNDERSIGNED
WIND MILL 00..

MANUFACTURERS OP

WOLCOTT’S

PATENT
SELF- REG ULA TING

SAEETUNAL-WHEEL wmn Mlll,

ARE now prepared to furnish Mills on short notice.
We employ but few Agents: we prefer to deal di-
rectly with the farmers. Remember, the Wind Mill
we offer you is not a new and untried Mill, for it
has been built in Albion for the past nine years, and
has stood the test. We can furnish any number of
Testimonials, from ten or more difierent States. We
have made many new and useful improvements from
year to ear, until we now have as good a Mill as
can be ound in the marki-.t——we might, like others,
say the best, but we leave it to you to judge for your-
se f. All we ask is that you give our Mill :1 trial. It
costs you nothing to make the trial; if not satis-
factory, we take it away at our own expense.

Derricks, Pumps, Tanks and Piping furnished
with or without Mills.

You can save time and money by writing‘ at
once for Circulars and Price List to

UNION WIND MILL J3 MAD/’F"G 00.,
Albion. Mich.

CORRECTION.

PATRONS having my SEED PRICE
LIST will please note typographical error
in quoting Peas, on page 5. It should be the
same as in respective columns on page 6
VlZ., pkts., Q oz., oz., qt., and 4 t. lVo
bushels quoted. GEO. W. H LL.

TO PATRONS I

DETROIT, Jan. 24, 1881.
Dear Sir:-—The copartnershi heretofore exisfing
under the firm name of Gao. . HILL do Co. is this
day disolved by mutual consent. Patrons owing the
late firm will make all payments to GEO. W. HILL.
and please be as prompt as possible.
GEO. W. HILL,
A. PLATT.

  

I will continue the Commission and Purchasing
business in every particular as heretofore. Make up
your club orders for Garden Seeds early. Remember

have no old stock. Send for Price List if you
have none. GEO. W. HILL,

80 Woodbridge St. West, DETROIT, MICE.

GlEORGE~s’W. HILL,
  Efoinznission Merchant,

Dealer in Grain and Produce,
No. 80 Woodbridge Street West.
DETROIT, MICH.

What EVERY 1/‘AMILY need,
and Every Grange should have,
and I can furnish it.

An Accurate Beam Scale,

that will weigh from ONE-EIGHTH OUNCE TO
TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS. It is a GEM,

For the small sum of $3.50.
VEGETABLE, FLOWER and FIELD

SEEDS.

Field Peas, Timothy,
Hungarian, Millet.

Clover,

SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES.
apr.1a1-3.

HEADQUARTERS FOR LAND PLASTER.

DAY cl’; TAYLOR,

Grandvllle, Mich.,

Are prepared to furnish LAND PLASTER, fresh

ound, at contract prices, made with the Executive
ammittee of the State Grange.

A large stock on hand of pure, finely-ground
LAND PLASTEB.

Send us your Order: direct.

janl-ly DAY :2 TAYLOR

Plant the B_ost Potatoes!

In order to give Brother Patrons a chance
to secure the best and most prolific POTATO
ever grown, I will ship on Grange Orders
for six bushels or more, the celebrated
BUBBANK SEEDLING at $1.25} per
bushel, sacks included.

H. H. TAYLOR.
DOWAGIAC, Mich, Apr. 1, 1881.

UNION NURSERIES

ESTABTISH 1111) 1857!

TREES! — TREES!

FRUIT AND ORNAHENTAL.

The proprietors of these Nurseries ofier——together

ith their experience of 24 years in the business—

complete stock of Apples, Pears, Cherries,
Plums, Peaches. Quinces, Grape, Currants,
Gooseberries. Blackberries, Raspberries and
Strawberries; also Ornamental Trees,
Shrubs, Roses, etc., etc.

All orders received through the mail, or entrusted
to our authorized Agents, will receive our personal
attention. Parties representing us, without our
Certificate of agency, are a fraud.

Address,
L. G. BRAGG &« CO»
KALAMAZO0, -' - - - MICE.

A. L. LAKEY & BIGELOW.
Kalimuun Paint and Racing Woks,

Manufacturers of

MIXED PAINTS. ROOFING MATERIAL, 816.,

—— AND DEALERS‘ IN —

All Kinds of Painters’ Goods,

AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
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PLEASE CALL AND SEE OUR STOCK AT

52 and 54 NORTH BURDICK STREET,

KALAMAzoo, MICH.

OW“-i7:aI:.1:-. 5*-'I'ON'_
WAGON SCALES

ARE SOLD FOR $360.

All Iron and Steel. Sold on trial—freight paid by
us———no money asked till tested and found satisfac-
tory. All sizes manufactured.

JONES OF BINGHAMPTON,
Binghamptou. N. Y.

Send for Circulars and further particulars.

PAW PAW, Mich., May 18th, .1878.

Jonas or BXNGHAMTONZ

My Scales give entire satisfaction. I have subject-
ed it to the most severe tests and find it not only
correct in weighing large or small amounts, but
perfectly relzable.
Yours, Fraternally,

[Signed] J. J. WOUDMAN.
3 in—lyr

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‘$9 HAMMEQ

   
   
     
  
       
      
 

ABSOL UTELY AND
'H2LCl J .I’I’IVOIIlIEIIIO

A}? D

BPGAR§.SODA
\VhIch is the same thing.

Impu:-e Salcratus or Bi-Curb Soda
which is the same (bin )1: ofa. alight.
y dirty vvhite color. It may appear
vvhito, examined b itself, but a.
COMPARISON WIT CHURCH &
C0’S “ ARM ANDI{AMMER” BRAND
will show the difference.

See that your Suleratus and Bak-
ing Soda. is white and PURE, as
should be ALL SIMILAR. SUBSTAN-
CES used for food.

5.. 353T

I to Al

BULLETIN.

  

  

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FEARLESS ms .

INDEPENDENT
son ALL HIS RIGHTS

   
 

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ruuunso m :73.

. OUR LIT'ii'i'.°’GnAu GERS
A FARM PAPER FOR FARMERS 

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BOTH PAPERS FOR-lso AYEAR
SEND run SAMPLE COPIES

F R E E
l48.W.FDURTH ST.ClNClNNATl. O.

HUSBANDS —0F sI0KLY— WIVES!

MOTHERS‘

SHOULD

OF DROOPING DAUGHTERS !

KNOW OF

DR. R. PENGELLY’S “ WOMAN'S FRIEND,” IMPROVED I
It is a SOVEREIGN REMEDY for

Those Complaints (they need no naming) peculiarto WOMEN, YOUNG or OLD, N01‘ A CURE-
ALL, Clcuminq to annihilate Jaundice, Diabetes, Bright's Disease, Gravel, and everything else which

afiiicts M EN EVEN MORE THAN WOMEN.

It works in ONE LINE and in that line it excels. The tender, Nervous Girl, the anxious, expectant
Mother, the overburdened Housewife, the Matron, passing the critical change, are all guarded, soothed and

sustained by its Gentle Influence. It is the prescription of an easperienced Physician, perfected during a,

life-long practice, and its nine ears of public record, in 30 difierent States, have proved it nightly nomad —
A FRIEND INDEED TO OMAN. The good words of those who use it are its best advertisement.
An 8»-ounce (81.00) bottle, or 3. 20-ounce (82.00) bottle sent on receipt of price. express prepaid, also
references and testimonials, on application to

PENGELLY & 00..

‘R.
KALAMAZOO. MICH. (Foiumnmr or Pumwurm.)

Bold Drug rally and Lady A onto. SW!!! & Doddn, and Fun-and, Williams
&. Co., DottolI.h’VnnSc§.£k8,eg:ovencon do Co., on cogo.

EVERY FARMER IN THE COUNTRY SIIOUILDALEIXIAIIINE THE

New Combined Spring Tooth Sulky Harrow

C.L7LTIV’ATOR AND SPIBJDEIZ.

Maniifzictiired by
THE SCHAU & SCHUSTER SULKY
THARROW AND SEEDIR COMPANY.

     

Knlannnzoo, - Michigan.

As a combined machine. it stands on-
rivalled in excellence, doing the work 01
a Harrow and Seed Sower most thorough-
ly and satisfactorily. It has taken high
' rank at once as ONE OF THE VERY
‘ BEST ll\Il’LEllIE‘-.\"l‘S FOR THE USES
,_ 7 DESIGNED EVER INVENTED. Sows
all kinds ot grain and grass seeds. The Harrow does not trail. and is of lighter
draft than any other Harrow in the market. It received first premium and diplomas
wherever shown in 1880.

Eureka. Automatic Wind Engine,

WARRANTED TO CONTROL ITSELF IN ANY WIND.
‘Pl-101$ P9ZlllAlO 9W-l 0'4 “MOVE HEIAAOJ .I.SElc'{VElHO

It is the Only lllall on record whose IVorkm_r/ Parts are Entii'ol_o/ Closed.
\Vill warrant it Never to Freeze Up or to be 1‘IlIld(“l‘Ell in any way by storm or 1,,,,_

FIIEFE, TAIVIIE. &(3o',

MANUFACTURE!) BY

S13/.’EI'I’IE-I <36 VVOODARD.

1.34 LA MA 200, 1!! ICE.

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BARN-FLOOR HORSE POWER

Can be Removed from Floor in Two Minutes—Taking up no Valuable
Room when Not. in Use. X‘ Sand for Circular.

Manumctmed by SMITH 8:. WOODARD, Kalamazoo, Mich.

SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW!
THE CHAMPION BARBED WIRE

Is Easily Seen, Most Efiective, and Least Dangerous to Stock of any Barbed Wire known.

 

CIFIIJEIR. ‘SFII

Barbed Wire, Dry Goods, Groceries, Sewing llllachlnes, Scales,
Seeds, Hardware, Watches, Clocks, Plated Ware, &c., &c.

In Fact, Everything You Want, of Your State Business Agency.
THONIAS W3-BOW,

Commission Merchant, 159 South VVa.ter Street, Chicago, Ill.

§’PATBONS STATE BUSINESS AGENT. N. B.-—All goods bought on your order at WHOLE-
SALE RATES on day of purchase. Terms strictly cash.

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