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“THE FARMER IS OF MORE CONSEQUENCE THAN THE FARM, AND SHOULD BE FIRST IMPROVED.”

Von. 'l,——No. 9. ,
WiioLs No. 113.

SCHOOLURAFT, MICH., MAY 1, 1881.

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lwill Expire with No.

Entered at the Post Oflice at Schoolcfafl
as Second Class matter.

so disuse iiiiaiilil

Published on the First and Fifteenth of
every month,

AT FIFTY GENTS PER ANNUM,
Eleven Copies for 36.00.

J. T. COBB, Editor and Manager,

To whom all communications should be addressed,
at Sohoolcraft, Mich.

Communications for, and Correspondence relating
to the Agricultural Department of the GaANcE Vis-
uoa, should be dlrectedto A. C. Gnmmm, Paw Paw.,

Remittances should be by Registered Letter. Money
Order, or Draft.

0 0 - 9  No one came to note it day by day. Wm proved and mu, proved _ mat me Bma,,_ cussion. VVe shall give the readers of the ,

Th  t ' - ‘’REP‘‘RA'”°N 01’ 501L- ' ' . V '1 R f th f ts f thi V

IS 1  9 ° Earth, one time, put on afrolic mood._ _ A clover Sod 0,. three ,ea,_s, Btandin Wm er the number of stalks to the hill, the larg- IS‘ ‘0 s°_me _° 6 8'0 mm 5 report - ‘C
Heaved the rocks and changed the mighty motion 3 8 . ,, and discussion in the next number. » 
r "'—“"‘ of the deep, strong currents of the ocean; give the best results probably of any condi- er the ears‘ am? Wee vc7_'sa’ —?—T-~——T- ‘ '
HVDEX To Tins NUMBER‘ M‘(’,"°d,:h° 1;1l“l,”t“,"d,5h°°k th‘;th““3h:-V,"'°°d? tion of the soil If left longer, more or less The extraordinary yields Often rep°rl’ed' “Acknowledging the Corn."
—~ "-18 °<1_t 9 1 N? S1111 11190 -111015 °1’-S’- ‘ ‘ . of 100 bushels of shelled corn and over to __._

Quiet LiV°8-- Swing 113011191’ P1551”? °“. C°"" C°V°19‘1 1‘ and 1"“ 1‘ 331° ’?‘’‘’”'3.'- of the hardy grasses will have become firm. the acre if brought to an accurate test b IN re-sP0115e 150 811 3dVe1'11Se1I1811t 111 the ’
Glover, and Grass——Corn—The Wheat Crop in Van Oh 1 the long, long centuries since that day, ]y set and be hard to eradicate, while B - ' y ' . y
Biii-en Oo_iiiity—slieap Shearing Festival —‘“Ac- oil, the changes! on, life's bitter cost! shorter period “I mover W“, not have per the scales, for each entire acre would un- V ISITOR some time ago a number of farmers ‘, 
gnlillyvhlieduglidliilzautlllis. Corn - New GNP“ “ 5991151‘ 511109 911° ‘1“°199311m°f°1'" “"13 1°“ fecuy enriched the 80,, for the beg, results doubtedlv be diminished to about 80 or 90 sent samples of Indian corn to the Agrloul- L,

Education of Farmers — Presentation at Weston
(}range—-The Ensilage of Maiz_a—Fx-om the Sunny
South, No. l—Moral Teaching in the Grange—No
One to Advocate their Cause, . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 2

A Note from A. B. Grosh—Good Enough—The Visi-
1-on Outside the Order-— Portland Grange, No. 174.
Berrien County Grange—A Report fr0_!n the North-
Asparagus Beds without Transplantlng—— Regret
and Sympathy—Histoi-ical B._ecords—'I‘ough—What
is the Grange i’—In Good HistoricCom_pany—MlB8
Edith Helps Things Along.—Uncle Nine Happy-
The Reaper Death—Memorial of Lucy Ca.dy.. .. 3

00-0 rative Stores and Agencies——A ‘Question An-
awfexraed-—The Wheat Crop —A Quick Trip and
Pleasant Visits—-“ The Only Agricultural Paper
Published in Michigan "—-To Correspondents—Th6

. G1-eat Question, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4
ti -—Re ort of the Committee of the N. W.

sPPr‘i>‘duce pA.ssociatiou.—_-The Visitor Wanted and
the Legislature Criticised—-Fence. Farm._ 111111
Highway--New Granges—Farmer J ohn—B.ailroad
Laws from a Railroad Standpoint—What Farm
Deeds Convey-—Livingston County"Council _B.eao-
lutions—Shiawassee Grange, No. lol—Notices of
Meetings-Resolutions of Respect, .......... .. 5

Hints to Housekeepers—Woman’s Mission—Do Hus-
bands Support Wives ?-Hslp in the House——Thg
Home—Femals Suffrage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .,.

The Wdina.n’s Right to the Pocket-Bock—Gossip—
Advertisements 7

Advertisements, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. B

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

Ofilcers Hatl_o_naI cranS°-
l[As'nm—J. J. WOODMAN, (Paw Paw) Michigan.

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0'1111511“"PUT' DARDEK ' ' Mississippi‘ Isfd i.e§'.‘§7i.i9§iI.‘i..t§.i1..’;°e‘.7eh.“i llxiiulxdu-— of the held Once over‘ ‘hen niarked both lured; small weeds are killed, and the soil One lot of 200 kernels from J. P. Budrow

Lao-ruana-HENRY ESHBAUGH, - Missouri. Ex, fires do,” d“ 8,, 00d_ Ways and planted, and immediately work _ , y _ I

snwAs.n—A J VAUGHN - Mississippi. I'd El savin’ of sope, B.ny’%I].VlX1’0f ile with the barrow until the corn appears. It 13 left "1 the bes” possible condmon for the Schoolcmm 93 per cent germinated‘ one

Asst. S-rswi.-an-—WlLLIAM SIMS, - Kansas And run up some_candles once in a while; can then be left um“ large enough ,0 Cum_ growth of the crop. Deep cultivation should lot of 200 kernels from Gilbert Stuart,

Gunum_S' E‘ ELLIS’ _ _ _ Oh-,o_ Id berathi:aFi'0lirp:.‘:ii;rqf11q<i)ri’i}eean tea, vate and Several days be added to its be given only while the corn is small, and Sohoolcraft, 100 per cent germinated. One ,'
'1‘nsAsuaaa—F. M. MoDOWELL, - New York. And alltobuyf ’ gm“',,h_ the depth lessened as the growth of roots lot of 150 kernels from H. C. Lockwood, _

Snoaii'rAnY—WM. M. IRELAND, Washington, D.C.

dtilillllllll Eelllllilli.

 GLIDDEN, - -

QUIET LIVES.

In a valley, centuries ago,

Grew a little Fern leaf, green and slender—

Veining delicate. and fibres tender,

Waving when the wind cre t down so low.
Rushes tall, and moss an grass grew round it;
Playful sunbeams darted in and found it ;

Drops of dew stole down by night and crowned it;

But no foot of man o'er came that way;

Earth was young and keeping holiday.

Monster fishes swam the silent main,
Stately forests waved their giant branches,
Mountains hurled their snowy avalanches,

Mammoth creatures stalked across the plain;
Nature revelled in grand mysteries ;

But the little fern was not of these,
Did not number with the hills and trees.

Only grew and waved its sweet. wild way:

Useless ? Lost? There came a thoughtful man,
Searching nature’s secrets, far and deep;
From a fissure in a rocky steep

He withdrew a stone, o'er which there ran
Fairy pencilings, a quaint design,

Leafage, veining. fibres, clear and fine,
And the fern’: life lay in every line I
So I think God hides some souls away,

Sweetly to surprise us the Last Dayl

SAVING MOTHER.

The farmer sat in his easy chair

Between the fire and the lampliglit’s glare ;
His face was ruddy and full and fair.

His three small boys in the chimney nook
Canned the lines of a picture book;

His wife, the pride of his home and heart,
Baked the biscuit and made the tart,
Laid the table and steeped the tea,
Deftly, swiftly, silently ;

Tired and weary and weak and faint,
She bore her trials without complaint,
Like many another household saint—.
Content, all selfish bliss above

In the patient ministry of love.

At last. between the clouds of smoke
That wreatbed his lips, the husband spoke :-

“ There's taxes to raise, an’ int’rest to pay,——
And ef there should come a rainy day,
"I‘would be mighty handy, I’m boon’ to say,
T’ have somethin put by. For folks must die,
An’ there’s funeral bills, and gravestuns to buy-
Enough to swamp a man, purty nigh.
Besides, there's Edward and Dick and Joe
To be provided for when we go.

And cider is good enough drink for me,

Corn.

The value of the corn crop in the econo-
my of the farm has long been recognized
and acknowledged, but the very facility of
its culture has been a bar to any improve-
ment in the process of cultivation, or to
attempts at larger yields and the consequent
increase of profit. Stubble land and con-
tinuously cropped fields are planted because
corn will give a better return for the labor
than any crop that can be grown on them,
and this has kept many fields from being
seeded, until successful seeding is nearly
impossible. No crop seems more grateful
to kindly treatment, or responds more
cheerfully to intelligent culture than this,
and it should be the aim of every farmer to
so prepare the soil as to secure the greatest
amount of profit for the area under cultiva-
tion and the amount expended in its pro-
duction.

If manure is to be applied, it should be
applied early and spread evenly on the sur-
face iiistead of being left in piles. Early
spring rains will wash the elements of fer-
tility into the soil, and distribute them in a
condition to become assimilated by the roots
of the plant, and in much better proportion
than could be done if turned to the bottom
of the furrow fresh from the yard.

The plowing should be done with a doub-
le plow, orjointer, not to exceed seven inch-
es in depth; on light soils, six inches is sum-
cient. A good deal of plowing is done in a
slovenly, slipshod glilanner. The furrow
slices are unequal, and irregular in width,
sometimes too Wide to turn, and at others
setting the narrow furrow on its edge, thus
making a very unequal surface, and a diffi-
cult one to get into shape for planting. By
using thejointer and cutting the slices of
equal and proper width from end to end, the
field will present the appearance of having
been rolled into shape. ’l‘he upper edge of
the furrow lies at the bottom, and the after
preparation is very much lessened. If it is
necessary to hasten the planting after the
plowing, the harrow can be run corner-wise

It is feared that some of this may still be
clinging to us. Let us apply a little arith-
metic to it—experiment a little with figures.
At four feet apart, there will be 2722 hills
to the acre. ‘A medium sized car will weigh
about ten ounces. Suppose we allow two
stalks to the hill and one of these medium
sized ears to each stalk. The product will
be 50 bushels of shelled corn to the acre. A
little arithmetic again, ahd it will be seen
that three stalks to the hill, each bearing
one of these medium sized ears, will produce
75 bushels of shelled corn to the acre. Now
suppose again that by having but two stalks
to the hill, we grow two large ears of 12
ounces each: this will add one-fifth to the
amount, and we shall produce 60 bushels of
shelled corn to the acre. Isn’t this a respect-
able yield? How many grew more than 60
bushels of shelled corn to the acre? By
this illustration is shown what experiment

bushels. Eignty-seven bushels to the acre
requires three large sized ears to each hill,
of 12 ounces each. The logic of figures for
an entire acre is greater than an estimate for
a certain number of hills.

\Ve would not discourage the attempt at
producing unprecedented yields per acre,
but shall be fully satisfied when all farmer
readers of the VISITOR shall report raising
75 bushels of shelled corn to the acre, which
we think attainable on most strong soils,
with proper cultivation and care.

CULTIVATION.

Only asmall part of the labor and care
necessary for making a profitable corn crop
is done when the field is planted. The
ground should be kept continually moist
from the time the blade appears until the
ears are formed, and this can be done only
by frequent stiriings of the soil. Killing
wceds is only of secondary importance in
cultivation, but many make this the prime
motive, and fail to appreciate the import-
ance of continuous cultivation.

VVe are an advocate of harrowing with a
light harrow when the corn is well through
the soil, and if the planting is properly
done, not one bill in a thousand will be in-

extends.

Sheep Shearing Festival.

The 6th annual festival of the Van Buren
and Kalamazoo County Wool Growers’
Association will be held on the Fair grounds
in Paw Paw on Thursday, May 5th.

The Association intend this shall be the
most enjoyable and entertaining festival of
the season. The committee on entertain-
ment is composed of the following gentle-
men and their wives: J. J. Woodman,
R. Morrison, and D. Woodman, who will
see that guests from abroad are suitably
cared for.

A very interesting report will be made
from a committee, of whom VV. G. Kirby,
of Kalamazoo county, is chairman, on the
comparative value of washed or unwashed
wool, based on the views of manufacturers
and dealers in the leading markets of the
east. This report will be followed by~dis-

tural College to be tested for its vitality.

The following samples were tested in sand

in the green—house, temperature 60° F., by

J. Troop, assistant in botany, and resulted

as follows :

One lot of 50 kernels from J. P. Budrow,

Schoolcraft, 84 per cent germinated. An-

other lot of 50 kernels, 92 per cent germi-
nated. One lot of 50 kernels from Gilbert
Stuart, Bchoolcraft, 98 per cent germinated.
Another lot of 40 kernels only five per cent
germinated. One lot of 50 kernels from D.
C. Bartlett, Lapeer county, not a kernel

germinated. Another lot of 50;kernel's, 62
per cent germinated. One lot of 50 kernels
from I. M. Wilcox, Rochester, Mich., 100
per cent germinated. One lot of 18 kernels
from H. C. Lockwood, Oceans county, 100
per cent germinated. Another lot of 40
kernels, 100 per cent germinated. One lot
of 60 kernels from G. Snyder, St. Joseph
county, 100 per cent germinated. One lot
of 50 kernels from F. A. Gully, Mlss., 88 per
cent germinated.

The following were tested by W. Snyder,
astudent, in folds of thick paper, in the
green house, temperature the same as the
above:

Oceana county, 94 per cent germinated.

. v - v ‘Iothin so facilitates the after workin of , .
(hrs-Ksarna--O. DINWIDDIE, - Indiana. 1A;‘ld1",1ol‘);{11gu"t’ :,‘:;:lf)“,l](‘:v1;°;‘,femnz’o:1;’y°;oe&_ coin as gm have the ground acwra,,ge,y The corn crop to Michigan farmers is not Another lot of 150 kernels, 100 per cent gel-.
Gnass—MBS. J. J. WOODMAN, - Michigan. G,,,,,g,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,l,,,,,,,_,,at,,,. knows, marked Four feet apart each way Seems secondary to the wheat crop, but of equal minated. One lot of 150 kernels from G.
Pouoiu—MB.S. PUT. DARDEN, - MI851881PP1' Extry trimmiii' ‘ value, and the same number of acres of Snyder, St. Joseph county, 100 per cent ger-

Pr.oBA—MRS. I. W. NICHOLSON, - New Jersey.

Lust Assr. S-rawsan-—MB.S. WM. SIMS, Kansas.

Executive committee-

I). WYATT AIKEN, - -
H. JAMES. - ' ‘ ‘
W. G. WAYNE, - - -

Officers Mlchlgg State Grange.

South Carolina.
Indiana.
New York.

‘S the bane of women,

“I'd sell ofi the best of the cheese and honey.
And eggs is as good, nigh about, ’s the money;
And as to the carpet you wanted new~—-

I guess we can make the old one du.

And as for the washer, and sewin' machine,
Them smooth-tongued agents’ so pesky mean,
You'd better get rid of 'em, slick and clean.
What do they know about women's work ?
Du they calkilate women was born to shirk F "

Dick and Edward and little Joe

to be about the right distance, but on soil
of rather poor condition four and one half
feet is preferable; this gives more surface for
the roots to work in, and a larger growth of
stalk.
PLANTING.
There is no single operation in the pro-
duction of corn on which so much depends
as the manner of planting it. If too

each should be grown. When that ratio is
reached,and the corn is fed on the farm and
the consequent manure applied, then fertil-
ity will be increased, and farming become
more profitable.

The Wheat Crop in Van Buren County.

At a session of Paw Paw Grange April 15,

mlnated. One lot of 50 kernels from D. C.

Bartlett, Lapeer county, none germinated.
Another lot of 50 kernels 80 er cent ger-
minated. One lot of 200 kerue s from F. A.
Gully, Miss., 84 per cent germinated.

It will be seen that some of the results
obtained from the same lots of corn, but by
different methods of testing, exactly agree,
while others vary a little. W. J _ BEAL,

Agricultural College, Lansing. .

BL--C. G. LUCE, - ' ' G“°_°'d‘ Sat in the corner in a row. much seed is placed in the hill, small stalks Vvith representatives present from dlflgrgnt

°"" N’ WOODBWE ' ' Wfimmt” g:°§e§§eie3§ Zfriiiiitif 33°15? “nd ““bbl“9 ‘"9 the ’°5““i if 11°‘ Planted *1‘ points in this Vicinity. 11 free interchange of sheep-shearing Festival and Basket Picnic
L.—»C. L. WHITNEY: ‘ ‘ - Muskegon. They saw that her form W,“ ha,“ and thin, the proper depth the Il8.l'EOW Will pull out opinion wag had 33 t0 the present prospects :-

8.—S. A. T0033: ' ' ' ' L?‘u51-'38‘ Her temples grey. her cheeks sunk_in, 301119 of it, Where only from ten to twenty of the Wheat crop. Gathering the average The 8IlI1Il8_.l Sheep-Shearing Festlvul and
A. s.—A. E. GREEN, - - FB1'm1ng’t-011- They saw the quiver of hp and chin— acres are to be planted we prefer the hoe in Basket Picnic of the VanBuren and Kala-

G.—SA.LMON STEEL, -

T‘_s‘ F. BROWN’ _ _ _ Schoolcraft Outapoke the youngest, irailest brother—- the hands of careful men. The seed should favor of the following conclusions 93 the will be held on the Fan. Grounds in Paw
Sac-—J T. COBB - . - Sohooloraft. -«you talk of ,,,,,,,,,v wood ,,,,d,1,, be tested '00 DI‘0Vi> the Perfection 01' the outlook for the times: Wheat on dry open- Paw on Thursday. May 5th. Su erintend-
G_1';___j_a,LuAH 13,131-LETT, - - Dryden. An’ tea an’ sugar, all the while, germ, and then on land of average fertility, mgs land has 8 much better appearance entqfi; taefiifiy. 0-  Llgiortona MommIitteTe
‘I .-—M.as. A. S. STANNABD, - - Lowell. But you never talk of saving mother!” 13 k 1 1 11 M b . - - OD -11 11111311 I'- an rs. . .
;°:1;;L__Mu,H‘D. PLA,,..,._ _ _ Ypsilgm. _Demn_t PM and Tribune. tlreciedeiine 5, I111: uliloreitnao eissl, s ionu 1 e than on heavier clayey soils. An average Woodman, M1-_ and Mrs. R. Morrison, Mr. .-
Pr.oaA.—Mss. A N. WOODRUFF, Wausrvliet. l1 9-11 11 980 1 -_ P90_ 11 P3 S 18179 of lo per cent was reported killed, and the and Mrs. D, Woodman. Breeders of long
LA. S.—l|£as. A.E. GREEN, - Farmington. been taken to fertilize a naturally strong balance so injured by freezing that the loss wool sheep areinvited to bring their sheep

Executive committee-

Manton, Wexford Co ‘

And then with a wrath he could not smother,

Plaster on Corn, Clover, and Grass.

soil, with the view of producing an uncom-
mon yield, four kernels may be planted, but

of sentiment expressed, the evidence is in

would be about 30 per cent of the whole.
Timber lands and heavy soils showed a

mazoo County Sheep Breeders’ Association

to be shorn. The entry to the Fair Grounds
will be free, and arrangements will be made

 

}HV%l§{ilgTlI§§Rgl'3;l31l:Bi§mm 1 ‘ .B°'fi°§p(;’§',m§' bei(l)1hlllsi{]Zhl':l:ts0tI(:i'  iiiesinlsavriié gl‘f()1l”’l':’V-fl)ll1l: 03388 are "119 Whm‘ 11 field “'1” 08113’ 50 much greater per cent of loss. averaging 59  l!i§1:'l1t:(1g:tf)1i1eIW8Bl?8l(1l iiliitiirilsgi
F‘. M_ HOLLOWAY, '_ _ _ Hiusdgle. years and says it has done wonders on corn, much seed through to perfection. Many per cent absolutely killed, late sown fields washed wool by W. G. Kirby, of Kglgmg,
J. Q. A. B R . - - _ uscoti. . - 9 085 more e swi e .ante< I lsseasonw ere makjn the ores; ghowjn _ The late I lscuss on.
WM. si~i~Fia.i$‘i§iE‘i§‘T°“. . i......'5.,.,.i...}.. °“3-"$i..$‘%‘.l.Ei'“.i’.‘-’e.i.r5f.’..‘“o‘.;°’ §i.‘;7’..‘’‘.‘3.§.’i3i.'3g.i.. 1”“ 1”’ P‘. .1 1*“ 1' E 9° 2 “"“°° °°‘“""' ’°"°"°§f§,S, mm‘, ,.,,_,,,
I§bgI9§BEE'. _ _ _ G 5 figfifi mm in water‘ rhea dmgxing Iplvfister with ,t Epgopkernels to the hill will make the better Evarmfglvefitlgeelg alpd 3:: l‘l;lIIl1:;)fla:§8V:5nti1:)ifi A. C_ GLIDDEE Sec,y. . .
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0- 5- LUCK» J- T- 0033- ' ' E*‘° ‘“°- 2: hfpefl msgpnpgléifileedctfiz Bs‘aV%;el‘Els}')it]liI1oliIi1l:::rS;la‘S§(§ I 121: former article. as an éllustratiocili oln writing (April 25) the fields piesent a much Seeds, Plants and Bulbs.
G ' no at _ - i  ano er topic we gave some gures an ca - more hopeful appearance, %

°n°m—- p y 313?, 1,’tk',’$e;e§he:3so?”€§£ egg, digiif grggg culations pertinent to this subiect, which -————————:———— A9 m”'"3’ °‘'de‘'3 319 110W Oomlng in for

0' L’ WHITNEY’ - - ' uukegom P g y’ We 1'eP1'0d1109111 51113 00111190151011? THE Granges which intend to ship wool seeds for the garden’ and plants and bulb”

State Business Agent.

and when ripe a blind man could have told
the difference by feeling the stalks and ears.

“ We all plant corn, but many of us have

should notify the committee as soon as pos-

for house and lawn, I will renew my offer

   

   
   
   
     
  
 
  
   
   
   
    
    
    
   
  

  
  
   
   

  
   
   
  
  
    
 
    
   
  

 

  

  

 
   

 
 
 

    

 
   
   
  

 
  
   
   

 
 
  
  
  
 
  
   

  
  

   

   
 
 
 
   
  
  
  
 
 
  
  
  
   
  
 
 
  

  
  
 
  
  

  
  

   
 
  
  
   
   

  
  

  

  

  

   
 
  
 

 
  

  

  
  

 
 

of former ears to furnl h ' P
member oty the Order with tlidliryi ataillidnftilf
lovsvipgtratesfz V

e ec ing rom lck’ , H d v
other standard retail prisce lifii.1s,eLm:?il'i :lll1lE

     

I have plastered all pastures and mowing
ground ever since. I often left strips not
plastered to see the effect. Cattle and sheep
would not eat the unplastered so long as they

too much of ‘the way our fathers did’ hang-
ing about us. ‘We may have come from the
east, where this doggerel rule for planting

sible, that sacks in sufiicient number can be
ordered, so as to prevent delay in shipping.
It is also necessary to report as nearly as

THOMAS MASON. - - ‘ oiiicago. 111-

       
     

 
    

Bpeclal Lecturers.

          
    
    
     

, . could get enough to eat on the plastered. prevails: . possible the amount to be forwarded, that nish $1.50 worth of lants, bulbs and geedg
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In. 8. Steele, ............. ...l?:ilto_n. Wexford co 110°“ 011 1111191‘ 1111101‘ 5°11 111111 011 Wet 90119 where, if the cut,.w,3;-m gnd cl-ow did not ansW  ‘"1111 911011811 6311118 atfded topayexpreesage.
la. B.Bmwn, ........... ...Bl_LwIonv'llle, Wayne 00. it did 110 80011- I 119-179 “Ways 311-id their on can f r their muons an the kernels row Fraternally, I am
Andrew 0empbell.........Ypsilanfl, Wulitenaw co. the greatest part of my farm I would use-it 0 A s . 8 THE Grange sets farmers to thinking, and C, L, V611-n-Ngy,
&e. I. Ilokleya .. .. ....  Lenawee 00. if it cost forty dollars per ton. to be stalks, and every stalk bore its nubbin. thinking in the right direction. Muskegom Ml°h_

 


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dumutuniratiuna.

Education of Farmers.

SALEM S’l‘ATION, March, 1881.
[The following essay, prepared and read
by Dr. George \V. Pray at the Farmers’ In-
stitute held at , was read by Bro. H.
B. Thaycr at a public entertainment given
by Salem Grange, on the evening of March
l1, and by vote of the Grange it is sent to
the GuA.\'on Vlsiron for publication.
1). D. 0.]

Education is one of the standard topics
among schoolchildren, and indeed it is a
hackneyed theme among older writers of
more pretentious ability, but the lack of
education among farmers as a class may not
have been noticed to the extent that its im-
portance deserves. I desire briefly to call
your attention to this subject by reference
to facts and by some comparisons.

By education is not meant the simple

ability to read and write and cipher. but a
more liberal culture than is usually afforded
at the district school, a culture that fits one
for any position to which society may call
him, or which his ambitious aspirations
may impel him. The advantages of the
district school are not to be undervalued.
It is not uufrequently impracticable, if not
impossible for young persons to avail them-
selves of any better educational facilities than
are furnished by the district school, and in
many instances these facilities well improv-
ed are the impetus and the momentum that
urge to a thorough self-culture, vthich is
nearly as valuable to the possessor, and
perhaps of greater benefit to society, than
the average college course, but these instan-
ces are rare compared with the multitudes
that attend district school. The great mass
of its attendants acquire a meagre amount
of the rudiments of learning, and are con-
tent with their acquirements, go into life
just competent to do the menial service of
society, and unlitted for any of the more re-
sponsible positions. Other things being
equal, the cultured and cultivated persons
will be called to positions of profit, honor
and trust. Even sterling integrity, the
highest moral worth, or the soundest judg-
ment will not compensate for lack of intel-
ligence, for lioorishness of manners, for
vulgarisms of language. The public readi-
ly discriminate between the crude and the
refined, and invariably in favor of refine-
ment, frequently, no doubt, at the sacrifice
of superior moral worth and of better judg-
ment.

Ifa certain class of persons seem to be
neglected in the besiowal of the honorable
and lucrative favors of society,tnay it not be
inferred that those persons are wanting in
those qualifications that the public demand
shall be possessed by its favorites‘?

Can we as farmers reasonably complain,
or can it be a matter ofsurprise that the pub-
lic should choose an educated, refined, and
intelligent lawyer, doctor or minister to
ably represent them in the State Legis-
lature or Congress, rather than a coarse,
vulgar and ignorant. farmer or mechanic?
Can it be a matter of astonishment‘ that
banker Jones‘ wife, or merchant Sheldon’s
wife, or Senator Sharon's daughter should
be put on the committee of domestic manu-
factures, or of dairy products at the State
Fair instead of the wives and daughters of
farmers, if, as is too frequently the case, the
merchant's and bankcr’s wives and daugh-
ters are better qualified for the positions?

No doubt the farmers’ wives and daugh-
ters would excel in_ making bread or butter,
apple pics or doughnuts, accomplishments
that are by no means to be despised or un-
dervalued, but in addition to these it is well
for the wife or daughter of the farmer to be
accomplished in fancy work, to know, the
more the better, of music and drawing and
painting; while at least a smattering of
Latin, of French and German, oi‘ geometry
and chemistry and botany are not all out of
place in the drawing room, or kitchen, or
parlor of the -farm-house.

The general reading and acquaintance
with current literature should be as com-
plete and varied as possible. Some years
ago a large, awkward, honest farmer's boy
had acquired a fair knowledge of the ele-
ments of education, suflicient to pass exam-
ination as teacher in a district school. Not
having come in contact with people of ex-
tended culture, he qame to overestimate his
own attainments and to think himself
equal to a professorship in a high school or
college. He chanced upon a certain occa-
sion to be in company of a lady and gentle-
man of genuine culture, of extensive read-
ing and ripe scholarship, when the conver-
sation turned upon the comparative merits
of the plays of Shakespeare, and as the
lady and gentleman discussed Hamlet,
Macbeth, Richard III, and the Merry
Wives of VVindsor, etc., the honest farmer
boy found himself unable to take any part
in the conversation, for he knew nothing of
the greatest of English authors, only as he
had occasional couplets quoted from him in
his school readers.

Embarrassed by his experience he resolv-
ed to extricate himself from the possibility
of its repetition, and upon the first opportu-
nity, purchased acopy of Shakespeare and
farniliarized himself with it. Then he pos-
oesaédhirnself of other standard authors,

and after considerable culture of this kind
found that he could appreciate cultured so-
ciety, and he came to be appreciated by
people of culture. He afterward became
one of the most enterprising and success-
ful farmers of his county, passing away sev-
eral years since, full of honors and virtues

Every true friend of the farmer
must deplore the fact that farmers and
their children who are being fitted for
farm life, are content with the acquire-
rnent of so little education. Farmers them-
selves seem to acquiesce in the prevailing
sentiment that the calling is a menial one,
that it is incompatible with culture and re-
finement, that as a class they are predestin-
ed to a condition of abject servility to other
classes, and by failing to qualify themselves
for the responsible and honorable positions
in society they virtually concede those pla-
ces to other classes.

I am free to say that I am not one of tho:-e
farmers who complain that our class does
not get its just recognition in the distribu-
tion of society’s favors.

are considered. Classes, like individual.-,
sooner or later find their true places in the
structure. An accidental lucrze may for
a time hear one far above his normal posi-
tion, but soon the unnatural buoyancy will
fail and the exact level will be found.

If oil and water and quicksilver are mix-
ed in the same vessel, is there any doubt as
to how the compound substances will ar-
range themselves ? So the law that assigns
to each class its appropriate place is as deli-
cate, as accurate and as inexorable its the
law of gravity that puts the oil above the
water and the mercury beneath them both.

The manual of the last Legislature of our
State shows that farmers are quite numer-
ous in that body and that they were prom-
inent in the transaction of its business.
The speaker of the House, Hon. John '1‘.
Rich, one of the most acceptable and effi-
cient that ever occupied the chair, is a. lead-
ing farmer of Lapeer County. He was one
of Governor Jerome’s most formidable com-
petitors, at the last Republican State Con-
vention last summer for the nomination of
Governor, and he was this morning nomin-
ated for Congress in the Convention at Mt.
Clemens, as successor to Senator Conger in
the Seventh Congressional District. Lieu-
tenant Governor Sessions, President of the
Senate, is a leading farmer of Ionia County.
Of the thirty—two Senators, thirteen were
farmers. Of the one hundred members of
the House, forty-four were farmers. Of the
forty five standing committees of the Sen-
ate, the chairmanships of eighteen of them
were given to the farmers. Of the forty-six
Committees of the House, twenty-one chair-
mansliips were given to the farmers.

The object of a. true life, however, should
not be the attainment of some distinguished
position among men, but rather to be
fitted for such positions as to be worthy of
them.

As the objectof a Christian life should not
be to gain heaven at all hazards and by all
means, but rather to gain a fitness of heav-
en, a worthiness of it, assured that such
worthiness and fitness shall have their re-
ward, so if we are intelligent, and honest,
and virtuous we shall deserve honor and in-
fluence among men, and they shall come to
us as certainly as the circle of the seasons.
In these days of cheap books every farm-
house should have asmall library,—not. all
agricultural and pomological reports, and
stock registers, but there should be books of
history, of poetry, of science. of religion, of
biography, and of select fiction ; and they
should be read freely and frequently, so that
by familiarity with these subjects the farm-
er and his family may be as intelligent and
cultured as are the families of the doctor,
the lawyer, the minister, or the banker‘. If
the Grange by its influence among farmers,
shall lead them to the realization of the im-
portance of a higher degree of intelligence
and refinement in their families, and among
the working classes, and shall bring them
to a truer appreciation of the educational
facilities within their reach, and thereby
elevate and dignify the calling and those
who pursue it, till the average farmer shall
be in truth, as by industry he may be, and
as of right he should be, in point of intelli-
gence, the peer of the average men in any
other calling,—then the Order will not have
been founded in vain. One of its chief ob-
jects will bave been attained, and the fond-
est hopes of its most ardent friends will
have been realized.

Presentation at Weston Grange.

Bro. Cobb :—April 16th being the time for
our regular meeting, and also the eve of
our \/Vorthy Maste.-r’s birthday, the broth-
ers and sisters decided to present him and
his estimable wife a testimonial of the
kindly regard and esteem in which they
are held in the Grange. Mr. and Mrs. VV.
C. Smith were chosen to purchase the same,
which consisted of an elegant silver service
of four pieces—castor, water pitcher, cream-
er, and fruit dish. As the VVorthy Master
announced recess, the VVo1-thy Overseer
objected, saying there was a little more bus-
iness to be transacted, and upon this signal
the folding doors were thrown open, and
two sisters entered, bearing a large tray
with the service nicely arranged with floral
offerings thereon, and advancing to the
altar, Mrs. C. E. Grear made the following

presentation :

‘ "renter
4 D '
We undoul.-ttdly -‘

get our full share, when our qualifications  Vemy so must he that Grange‘

MAY ls'r, 1881.

Brother and Si.-zler Patrons .-—The first.
time during the three happy years I have
been wont to call you brothers and sisters I
have felt an inclination to shirk this res
pom-ibility assigned me, not because I feel
less of love for the Order, but simply be-
cause I know full well my inefficiency,-
because I have but a vague idea of how to
inaugurate the rejoicing.-1 and congratula-
tions which must attend this—the eve of.
our \Vorthy Master’s birthday. There 
better brain for this that you might have,
chosen, with more of needed courage; but ;
none can feel a higher appreciation. 4,

It is the wise providence of the Great;
Ruler to create lives here and there in the ~

great broad world that are lived, in thei
main, for humanit_v’s !-ake—whose e\'ti‘_\'l

effort seems to jewel with joy the moments 1
that make up the lives of the beings about
them; whose influence  in such striking
contrast with the morbid S9lllSllI'I€S< of men
in general, that they ftllll-’3'.~'t lieemiie a theme
for worship. There is sornethiug sweetly
sad in the tlmughts of a life that is lived
for others. The acts that mark them have a
tout-him: appropriateness that makes us feel
a debt for which not anything is pay, and
that of all the good gifts given there is none

]il>SG(‘(l, indeed, is the home where stat-h ll
soul has the charge of its (hstiny, and,

I am conscious of entlor.-em»-r.t in assert-
ing that for years it has been our good
fortune to reap from small beginnings the
outgrowth.-1 of such a home, devoted, phil-
an thropic spirit.

Thirty-six years ago to-morrow there was
born in the grand old State of Ohio 3. lit-irig
whose high prerogative it is to-night to
know that “ it is more blessed to give than
to receive.” In the years back it has been
his province to weave in the hearts about
him a devotion that seems almost solemn
from its verity. I refer to our VVorthy
Master, Brother George B. Horton.

And now as an evidence that worth reaps
reward, as an evidence that we wish you to
know that we appreciate the efforts you
have made for the.development of this
cause——it becomes my happy duty in the
name of \Veston Grange, to ask that you
will accept these little tokens, not as a
standard by which to judge the love we
hear you, not as a compensation for invalu-
able services, Lut simply to establish the
lasting bond of fraternity that makes life
worth the living.

And if ‘you are spared to meet with us
here in our beautiful hall in years to come,
when your steps are slow and your looks
are gray, may the same sweet union remain
as dwells with us in our Grange to-day.

Brother and Sister Horton, these memen-
toes we leave with you—one little link in
friendship’s golden chain.

This was a total surprise. Brother Hor-
ton's reply was very brief, but as he stood
before us with the tears rolling down his
cheeks, arising from his noble soul, we all

felt amply rewarded. 0.

the Ensilage of Maize.

This is the title of a thin volume lying
before me. Its author is a. Frenchman, M.
Auguste Gofiart. The process there de-
scribed and known as ensilage is the inven-
tion of Mr. Goffart. Its object is to preserve
corn or other crops in their green state for
winter feed. He experimented at great
labor and expense for nearly twenty years.
and finally hit upon the successful plan of
cutting the corn, while still in a green state,
into short lengths and packing it into vaults
built partly below the ground.

Mr. Brown’s translation of this book was
followed by quite a boom of this subject in
this country, especially in the Eastern
States, I judge. About a year ago two en-
terprising farmers of Amenia, Dutchess
County, N. Y.,paid a visit to the farm of
Mr. Bailey, of Bilerica, l\1ass., who had a
“ silo ” in successful opt-ration,and to make a
long story short, they took the ensilage
fever, and took it hard. Returning home,
they both began the construction ofsilos. I
called on Mr. Chaffee to take a look at his
silo when it was finished.

I found he had built between a high bank
wall on one side and the wall on the other
side, an immense cistern, fifty and one-half
feet long, thirteen and one-half feet wide,
and sixteen feet deep. The walls were made
of concrete (stone and cement), fifteen
inches thick, and perfectly straight and
smooth on the inside. The bottom Mas also
well cemented.

It was estimated that this silo would hold
‘.750 tons. He had eleven acres of corn
sowed in drills. Calling again about the lst
of September, I found the filling in process.
A large power cutter run by a steam engine
was cutting the corn into half inch lengths
as fast as one man could feed. Two men
were cutting corn in the field, two teams
were drawing, and one man was more than
busy trying to stow away in the silo. Some
of the corn made an immense growth, one
field of four acres being estimated at thirty
tons per acre. During the first two or
three days’ filling, i_t did not seem possible
that the product of the whole eleven acres
could be got in. But after a little the mass
began to ferment, and by the increased
weight to settle. Some days it st-ttled al-
most as fast as it was filled, and when the
corn was all in, it still lacked two or three
feet of being full. The top was covered
with six inches of straw, and over that a
covering of boards laid on the straw, and on
that about thirty tons of stone were piled.
In a month after filling the mass had settled
four feet more. In the winter the stones
were taken off and the ensilage taken out
as needed by a door near the bottom, which
had been bricked up when it was filled.

AThe green color of the corn had changed
to a light brown, and the taste, though not
disagreeable, was slightly sour. _

Mr. Chaffee keeps about fifty cows, and

after they became accustomed to ensilage,

they ate it greedily, preferring it to bay.
The flow of milk showed a marked increase
and the quality was fully up to the stand-
ard where it is purchased at the condensing
factory.

\V‘ith the short trial ensilage has had
it seems to bea success. VV'hether it will
work a revolution in agriculture, as
some of its enthusiastic advocates think it
will, remains to be seen. SOIL.

Sharon County, April, lSSl.

FROM THE SUNNY SOUTH, No. l.
nv in-zs. 1.Ii>scoun, or  C.

Come, gather round me,dear li tie childrr.-n
of the cold North clinic. and let me rnake
ynll at home in this sunny land of ours.
Yes, this is a large, rambling old house with
many rooms and broad, long plazms; but
alas, it is sadly in need of repairs. .51 var
mind; God‘:-i bles:-"ed ligltt shines very
brightly on it, and the glare is most too
!llll(‘ll, otit here; let us go to that side piazza
and seat ourselves coniforiably on thej0g-
gling bmml. \Vhat a merry crew! Four
girls and live boys! Sit close, there is room
tor all. .\'ow.jogglc away. Ah! I see that
expre:--.-ive s-nifl'—you think I have called
,§"()'tl to a feast of ripe peaclzcs; but that would
be asking too much, even for this warm
land. Cast your eyes upward and admire
that tall, wide~spreading tree, covered with
fern-like leaves, and radiant with peach-
tinteal powder puffs. Send that active boy
to climb its branches and bring us a bouquet
of its pretty blossoms. Here he comes, laden
with sweets! See; they look and feel like
delicate powder pufi‘.-, and the end of each
tiny feather has the warm tint of the ripe
peach, and the perfume is so similar that it
often deceives even me. It is the Mimosa,
one of our most valued ornamental trees,
but not very common—rare enough to be
highly prized. See the myriad-s of brilliant
humming birds, flitting from flower to
flower! VVatcb how their plumage gllstens
and changes in the sunlight! Is not that 9.
beauty? His neck and wings are surely
molten gold. No; now they are emerald
green, and lo! as he turns his head, they
rival the peacock’s blue-. Isut, dear children,
they are naughty, passionate, wee birds.
See those two fighting; and do look at that
angry scrap, tearing the flowers to pieces
because, forsooth, they are not suited to his
dainty palate!

Ah, little ones, beauty is not much, after
all, if it covers wicked hearts. Let your
beauty be so deeply planted as goodness,
that in time it will force itself outward and
upward, and make beauty and goodness
synonymous terms. But I must not preach.
I want you to see the beauties the kind
Father has bestowed on His children ; and
if I mistake not, the}; will speak louder than
sermons.

Look at that luxuriant vine, clarnberlng
from tree to tree, binding them together in
its loving folds. It is one mass of green and
gold! What a wreath of golden trumpets;
and did you ever inhale a more delicious
perfume? Draw deep. Drink it in; it
never sickens; It never clogs. I always
feel that earth cannot give me enough of
t.hem—our dear, yellow jessaminel Now,
look down. I don't wonder-you exclaim.
You would hate to plant your feet on those
lovely violets, or to crush that mass of blue
daiscs. It does seem a sin—-but hush! don’t
speak; only look! Here they come; my
numerous band of romping girls and boys,
and my cook’s half dozen little darkies, all
bent on a regular frolic. They shout and
sing, and laugh and turn somersaults. and
play leap-frog—oh, shame! right. on the
thicklv covered daisy turf! Thev crush
down the blue sod; and now they spy the
violets. Nimble fingers go to work, and
soon a high pile is make; each child has a
share, and they begin 9. game called “tight
chickens.” I have never appreciated it, but
like most games taught them by their col-
ored playfellows, my children think it quite
fascinating.

But the sun is not so hot now, let. us walk
to the river. Put on thick shoes and we will
go the rocky way that you may admire the
great stone bowlders which some people
think show signs of iron and gold. My
crew will go barefoofed that they may enjoy
the fun of wading out, and run up and
down the steep hill-side. Listen to that
mocking birdl Now he is mocking the
crow, and that trill is surely the lark's.
Whatafickle bird, and to mew like a cat!
Notbird-like to say the least of it. But we
cannot stop to listen to your varied song just
now. Mr. Birdie, you must come early to-
morrow morning and carol your sweetest
lay to awaken these little visitors.

I see that you admire that pretty blue bird;
sodo I, but ’tis treason to say 30. Every ne-
gro and child in this fair land regard it as
accursed, and think it their bounden duty to
torture and kill every one," they can catch.
To pluck their feathers off and turn
them off“ to go to hell,” isa lesson early en-
grafted on cl1ildrens' minds by their " Mau-
mers." Like other superstitions, I trust
the day is near when it will be done away
with.

This reminds me though, ofa famous story
which my baby boy never tires of, and to-
night as we sit on the piazza I will tell it to
you.

Now,children, you areat my garden gate,
my garden of nature's own planting. I am

not able to make one at my door, but by
taking this rugged walk I possess myself of
one that kings might rejoice over. Don't
you think so? See how thickly that hill-
side is covered with mountain laurel and
kalmia. The long shining leaves of the
laurel mingle beautifully with the kalmia’s
pretty flowers. Pluck a cluster. See, each
bunch is composed of dozens of little cups,
scallopped at the top and dotted over with
dark red. l\Iy favorite jassamine is clambe1'-
ing over all, binding the different shrubs to-
gether in chains of gold. Now turn to your
right. Look at that low bush, covered with
maroon colored flowers, crush one in your
hand and see how fragrant it is. \Ve call it
the “sweet shrub," and if you put the
flowers among your clothes, they will be
sweet for many 9. day. But look before you
at that tree so thickly covered with delicate
white fringe. It looms up among the dark
green foliage in its snow white purity, like
a maiden adorned for her bridal. l)o you
like its perfume‘? I do not. it is too sweet.
with no frcshne.-xs about it. Some call it the
Fringe tree, others, “ Diddy Gray-Beard,”
but it is in truth the white ash.

See what quantities of wild Azalia adorn
that hollow, and have you noticed that you
are walking on a carpet of bluc—cyed dai-
sies, while every bush shelters a bed of vio-
lets‘? Now, We come to my garden of large,
white, fragrant lilies, and near by observe
that starry white bloom. Could any hot-
housr-. plant possess more delicate beauty?
In vulgar parlance it is the white blood-
root; and that mound, tradition asserts, is
an Indian burial ])l8.i'(’. Meet flower for
such a bed! Once, in the olden time, a.
powerful race malls their home in the bend
of our river, and we often find arrow-heads,
bits of pottery, and tomahawks among the
sand.

And now. little friends, do you like my
garden? I am glad of it, and very glad that
Icould show it to you on such a lovely af-
ternoon. The slanting rays of the sun shed
a halo of glory around each plant, and I
never come here at this hour without being
reminded of the First Garden ever planted;
and methlnks even the rivers Pison, Gihon ,
Hiddekel and Euphratets could not have
gleamed under the sun of Eli?“ more bean-
tifully than this shining water which com-
passe‘-;h the garden of my love.

Moral Teaching in the Grange.

Wortlzg blaster, Brothers and .S'Ls'ters.--—-
When we express our faith in God we take
our first great moral lesson in the Grange,
fora belief in God and the moral law as laid
down in that Holy Book lying upon our
altar,is the chief corner stone, or foundation
upon which all the moral teachings of our
Order are founded. As we advance step by
step we find each les~e:in fraught with moral
precepts and instrur-tion, which, if exem-
plifiedin our lives and in our intercourse
with others, would exert such an influence
that the many plague spots and demoraliz-
ing cesspools that now disli«_.v,urc and pol-
lute this beautiful world of ours would be
cleansed and purified. without the aid of
costly legislative bodies. The moral teach-
ings of the Grange are such as are calcula-
ted to raise a high moral standard, and
should never be but sight of in the multi-
pliclty of duties which are ever presenting
themselves to our notice. The latent forces
of our natures need to he brought forth, fig-
ted and educated for active work in the
cause of right. and justice, in uprooting
superstition and bigotry, in dispelling the
cloud of oppression and humility which has
hung as is pail over woman, for ages dwarf-
ing all her energies; and for the further-
ence of all the great moral ideas of the day.

The moral teachings of our Order are such
as are calculated to help the young to be-
come better, wiser, and nobler men and
womcn,and more cfflt-lent lalmrers in all
that pertains to the lietteriiig of the condi-
tion of mankind. Its teachings and influ-
ence msy be unlimited, its work uuceastng,
until the great Master above shall aay,“Well
done, good and faithful servant. Others
have done well; hon hast done nobly the
work assigned you: enter Into that rest
prepared for the faithful laborers from the
foundation of the world.”

\Veston Grange, Apr., 1851. L. K. P.

No One to Advocate their Cause.

9
It is 3. most unfortunate fact that the “pro-
ducers and tux-payers ” of this country have,
comparatively speaking. no one to advocate

their cause. In support of the latter part of
this statement, we have the assertion of
Senator Beck. of Kentucky, who was for
several years, before he was elected to the
Senate of the United States, it member of
the House of Representatives. He says: “ I
served in the: House Committee on Wave
and ltieaiis for .-ix years, and I saw all the
great inonopclies and protected interests of
the country struggling there to perpetuate
their pl'l\'.leg'-:4. I have seen the ablest law-
yers argue tneircases (for pay), £0038 for salt,
some for iron, some for blankets, some for
cotton. and for everything that is protected;
but I never saw one human being come here
yet to argue for a reduction of taxation in
the interests of the producers and tax- payers
of this country."

The G'er1n.an Agricultural Gazette says
that several correspondents have got rid of
rats and mice by means of a mixture of two
parts of well bruised common squills and
three parts of finely chopped bacon made
into a stiffmess and baked into small cakes
which are scattered around for the rats and
mice to eat. This is very simple and harm-
less, and worth trying. .

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MAY 1ST, 1881.

@lJ13l?£:2-]J1'IllIltIlI1}-

A Note ‘from A. B. Grosh.
WASIITNGTON. D. C. April 6, 1881.

Dear Sir and Brother .-—’l‘hanks for the
bright and cheery GRANGE VIsIToR, whose
contents hive been highly appreciated by
myself and family, notwithstanding I was
unable to respond earlier. I have sold my
house here and leave this city soon after the
20th inst. to visit kindred and friends in
several States. Any letters or ‘papers de-
signed for me, will reach me if addressed to
the care of \V. R. Grosh, (my son), Elkton,
Cecil Co., Md., or to 39 Seymour Avenue,
Utica, N. Y., until further notice.

Your Brother, A. B. GROSH,

Author of the Mentor.

Good Enough.
Liberty Grange, No. 391,
NORTH STAR, Gratiot ()ouuty,}
April 7, 1881.

Bro. Cobb :——Enclosed you will find the
names of 39 three months’ subscribers, and
one yearly subscriber, making in all about
70 names sent by this Grange since January
1st. I would say that Bro. S. L. Little got
21 of these subscribers in one day. If each
member would take hold and work a few
hours occasionally for the VISITOR, I think
it would not only add largely to its circula-
tion, but would materially add to our nuIn—
bers, anti thus promote the noble work
which we have united together to accom-
plish. Yours fraternally,
LUTHER J. DEAN, Master.

The *‘ Visitor” outside the Order.

PLI-:AsANToN GRANGE, Feb. 15, 1881.

Bro. Cobb.-—\Ve took advantage of your
offer in the VIsIToR to distribute ten copies
to .en differeiit persons not members of the
Order, for three months for one dollar. The
result has been, so far, that two out of the
ten have renewed their subscriptions
through me, on the list I send you. Per-
haps some of the rest have sent. directly to
you for the VIsIToR, for I have talked with
some and they seem to like the paper.

With the request of D. R. Van Amburgh
to have his paper renewed, I received the
following letter, which was read to the
Grange. I was then requested by the
Grange to send a copy of the letter to you
for publication. It is as follows:

“ PI.I«:AsANToN, Apr. 1, 1881.

“]l[r. J. 0. Mcbiarmid, Sec. of Pleasanton
Grange: DEAR SIR: — Please accept our
thanks for your kind remembrance of us
and also for the GRANGE VIsi'roR. We like
it much and shall be glad to add it to our
list of papers. Enclosed please find 50 cents
for one year’s subscription. Hoping to be
better acquainted with the principles of
your Order, we subscribe ourselves,

“ Yours respectfully,
“D. It. VAN AMBURGH,
, "M. A. VAN Aiiinuuoir.”

Others courteously acknowledge the re-
ceipt of the paper, and we trust that the
bread thus cast upon the waters in faith may
not be in vain.

Fraternally yours,
D J. MCDIARMII), Sec.

Portland Grange, No. 174.

Bro. Oobb .-—The members of Portland
Grange, No. 174, are still at. work as labor-
ers under the great Master with hopeful re-
sults. During the month of March we were
the recipients of a three-we eks visit from
our Worthy Past Master,Bro. Adam Decker,
and wife, now living in Girard, Kansas.
He speaks well of Grange work there, but
as I am not reporter for Kansas Granges, I
will come back to Portland VVe hold our
meetings oncea week. After the regular
business of the meeting we have essays and
discussions. Sometimes we have visiting
committees to inspect the premises of the
brothers and report at the next meeting, and
let us know how they manage their farms
and stock, and these reportsalso include the
domestic affairs of the household.

VVe have a question box, but lately the
-main question was kept out. of the box, and

- the discussions, we think. were kept from
the Grange.as well as those outside the gate,
which thereby opens up another question :
Would a little fraternal counsel from the
Grange be in Order in the conduct of this
business ? But it is too late to discuss that
in this case, for Brother Asil Way has prov-
ed his bravery as 8. Lyon tamer by leading
Sister Augusta Lyon to the liy menial altar.
The-occasion was crowned with a feast, and
all went; merry as a marriage bell. And now
we fancy we hear Sister Augusta sweetly
singing:

“ This is the Way I long have sought,
And mourned because I found him not.”

VVho will go and do likewise ?

MRS. ADDIE WAINWRIGHT.

Portland, April 12, 1881.

 

Berrien County Grange.

Berrien County Pomona Grange held its
quarterly session at Buchanan on the 12th
and 13th inst. The roads were had, never-
theless quite alarge number of earnest Pa-
trons found their way to the meeting. We
were favored with the presence of Aaron
Jones, VVorthy Master of Indiana State
Grange, who, after installing our ofiicers,
favored us with an excellent essay, on the
subject, “ The Necessity of Farmers Organ-
ganizing.” “ Our public schools, their de
fects, and how to remedy them,” wasdiscuss-
ed by B. Helmick, Hon. Levi Sparks, and
J. J. Jones and David A. Best. We believe
the discussion of this subject will result in
much good. The reports of the Subordi-
nate Granges througliout the county were
encouraging, showing an increase in mem-
bership, and a better discipline in the work
of the noble Order. Many who once affilia-
ted with the Grange and fell from grace are
now returning to its fold, and renewing
their covenant with the Order. VVe extend
the hand of fellowship to them and bid
them a. hearty welcome, and it need be, feed
them as prodigals with the fatted calf. \Ve
have good reason for believing that the
GRANGE VIsIToR is doing a noble work for
the furtherance of Grange principles and
Grange ideas throughout the land wherever
read. We, in Berrien County, hope that the
VISITOR may ever continue in its good work
until every tiller of the soil is brought ‘with-
in the Gates of our noble fraternity.

W, J. JONES, Elec’y.

Berrien Springs, April 18, 1881.

run ensues vkrsisfos.

A Report irom the North.

Bro. Cobb :-—I will not longer wait, but
send you a a brief report from Valley
Grange, No. 600, for your most excellent
paper. Our Grange is doing well, although
we need a. hall very much, but considering
that we nearly gave up the ship once, and
have been in working order less than two
years, I think we have much to encourage
us.

New members to the number of fifteen
have lately made their appearance in our
ranks. and they still continue to knock for
admittance at our gates.

\’Ve have a most efficient corps of officers.
Our Worthy Lecturer, Sister Chattield, is
taking hold of the oar, laboring with a will,
and is giving each one something to do to
promote the interests of the Grange. We
have essays, debates, speaking, reading, etc.
VVe have listened to some able arguments
on different subje-cts, and expect to hear
some excellent essays-—-read by Sisters
Hickok and Kiltridge, and Bro. Cliatlield,
and perhaps some speaking from our Wor-
thy Master, as these are on the program of
our next meeting.

Fraternally yours,

Crystal Valley, April 9, 1881. I-‘. M. H.

Asparagus Beds without Transplanting.

The usual way of forming asparagus beds is
by sowing seeds and afterwards transplant-
ing the crown. In all works on gardening,
this plan, and no other, is recommended.
That the plan succeeds well enough, when
managed skillfully and carried out under fa.
vorable conditions, there can be no doubt;
but it is also true that transplanting throws
the plants back considerable, that it is often
the cause or great losses among the plants,
and so causes much lossof time in filling the
beds. Asparagus is one of the most trouble-
some subjects totransplant. Seeds grow free-
ly enongli, and there is never any difficul-
ty in raising your plants; but moving from
the seed bed to the permanent bed is a
very different matter, particularly when
the plants have to be transported from the
nursery, where they are not always so care-
fully lifted as they should be. Several plans
have been suggested to prevent losses in
transplanting, and one of the best is to move
the piantsjust when they begin to grow, and
not before, as is frequently done. Whichever
plan is adopted, however, there are sure to
be losses, causing blanks in the beds, which
have to be filled up the following season. By
sowing the seed where the plants are to re-
main, however, and simply thinning them
out to the proper distance apart, all trouble
and losses are avoided. Perhaps a little
more seed is used at first, and a little more
space occupied for the first year or two; but
these considerations are nothing compared
to the advantages the plan offers. It is well
known that, by transplanting, the plants
that grow lose a year or Inore, owing to the
check they receive. The first year their
growth is usually as weak or weaker than it
was the year previous in the seed bed,where,
had they remained, it would have increas-
ed in strength, and the plants would have
yielded a crop proportionally earlier. To
sow seed to tran.-plant, where the seedlings
are two years old or more, and afterwards
wait for four or five years longer for
a crop, is a long while, when per-
haps athird of the time might be saved
by sowing seed only, as has been recom-
mended. In a case in which this was done,
the following autumn there were no blanks
on the ground, and by the thlrd year the
seedling plants were about as good as those
which were several years older, and which
had come from the nursery This, however,
is not the only example of seedling planta-
tions where it was found to answer, and
was carried out on a. considerable scale. III
a large plantation elsewhere not one blank
was to be found, and at the end of the third
year, thanks to timely thinning and subse-
quent good culture, the plants were as strong
as transplanted ones at the end of five years
or more from thetimeof sowing. Beds forseed
ling plantations can be madein the usual way,
either raised or sunk, according to circum-
stances, and afterward dressed and cultivated
in the ordinary ma.uner.—Farmer’s Ivlriend.

THOSE who have assumed that Jay Gould
couldn’t run a newspaper successfully may
discover their error by noting the announce-
ment made in yesterday’s New York Trib-
une. . It was bought: by Mr. Gould some
eight years ago, or rather 51 of the 100
shares were bought by him for $510,000, and
since then he has run it to suit his political
and financial speculations, with Mr. White-
lam Reid as his editor. In some of what
are commonly regarded as the chief features
of journalistic success, Mr. Gould has not
made the Tribune successful, but in what
Mr. Gould considers journalistic success, he
has made it entirely successful. True, the
stock-holders have had no dividends, and
the shares of the minority have little mar-
ket value, but that isn't what Mr. Gould
wanted the Tribune for. He bulled and
beared \Vall street, bulled and beared polit-
ical parties, bulled and beared Presidents,
Senators, Representatives, and Supreme
Court Judges, and he made it pay. If the
minority stockholders didn’t come out so
well, it was their misfortune and not their
fault, and they can console themselves with
the reflection that they are not to blame.
In yesterday’s edition of the Triburie, being
the fortieth anniversary of the paper
founded by Horace Greeley, Mr. Gould
announces that its debt has been reduced
to only about $100,000; that it could pay
dividends now, but that it probably won’t;
that Mr. Gould is contemplating, “ with a
cheerful equaiiimity,” the use of the profits
in some other direction; and that during
the past year the Tribune “ attained the
largest circulation it has ever reached.”
Mr. Gould has doubled the capital stock of
the company, which rating it at the price
he paid for his original interest, increased
the capital just $100,000; but Mr. Gould
wouldn’t be expected to notice a little:trans-
action like watering the stock of his news-
paper a million dollars, when he waters
the stock of telegraphs and railways by
tens of millions by a dash of the pen.
Viewing journalism from Mr. Gould’s
standpoint, he has made the Tribune a suc-
cess. He has made it pay for himself and
nobody else, and tbat’s just what he wanted
it for. There are many old fashioned journ-
alists, devoted to journalism as an honor-
able profession, who will differ from Mr.
Gould’s idea of newspaper success, but this
is a. free country, and every man pays his
money and takes his choice.—Phi'ladelphia.

*7hiiliiiii’s tliiitliiIiiil-

C. L. VVEIITNI-:r, , . ,

llIUsi<i~:ooN.

Regret and Sympathy.

A mourning envelope came to hand this
week containing notice of death and funeral
of Sister Margaret A. Dean, wife of the
chairman of the Delaware State Grange.
We regret her loss, feeling that it was our
good pleasure to have known her, though
an invalid. Her home, her children, and
her husband will greatly miss her, and to
them we express our sympathy in this their
great bereavement. A brotl‘ier’s regrets and
sympathy go many a mile to thee and thine,
Brother Dean.

Historical Records.

In Lossing's United States History,vol.
IV, we find the following recorded:

“The Patrons of Husbandry, a secret or-
ganization for the promotion of the various
interests of agriculture and whose growth,
particularly in the \Vest, in the course of
three or four years was marvelous, took a
conspicuous lead in the movements in favor
of cheap transportation. This organization
was avowedly for the sole interests of agri-
cultural industry. As the organization
grew into immense proportions, politicians
tried to seduce them to their support, but
they have ever gone on under the impera-
tive rule that no political or religious topics
should be allowed at their meetings. 'l‘he
organization of the Patrons of Husbandry
in its aims is an admirable one, and is the
first of the secret societies which has ad-
mitted wonieii to full membership. How
could this do otherwise when the work and
influence of women in the business of agri-
culture in our country is so important‘? ”

Tough.

A lady reader of the VISITOR in Delaware
sends this selection for us to pronounce. In
Michigan of course we can do it. Let her
come and hear us.

“According to a German chemist, that
particular brain substance which is sup-
posed to be essential to thought is—Oxeath-
yltrimelhylammoniumoxydlirateleylopalin-
etliolycrimphosphorsaure. Now, as I dis-
agree with that German chemist, I should
be disposed to take up a column or so in
stating my reasons, but for the fact that
there is no compositor living who would
undertake to set up that awful word more
than once.”

\Vell, we have burst the barrels iII the
barn, but think we succeed quite well, and
our next lecture will be upon this necessity
of thought. Get your note-books ready.
Please tell us how many letters of the alpha-
bet have been left out? PATRON.

What is the Grange?

From the history of the Dominion Grange
we copy this item, and it is true to-day and
in Michigan :

“ Many people are of the opinion that the
Grange is simply a society for making
money by buying cheap and selling dear,
and nothing more. The society was organ-
ized for other and nobler purposes than
merely trading. It is a body of farmers
who meet together for the purpose of dis-
cussing such subjects as materially affect
themselves, to consider their mutual inter-
ests and how they may be best aided, to
work unitedly where any good thing is to
be done or any evil prevented. The scope
of their work is large, and if in performing
some particular part’ of it, they tread on
somebody’s come. that part of their work
assumes the greatest proportions in some-
body’s eyes. This is why business men see
ndothipg in the Grange but the trading
I ea.

In Good Historic‘ Company.

The historian of the first century of
American independence names its great
events, and with the laying of the Atlantic
cables, the building of the Pacific railroad,
classes the organization of the Grange of
Patrons of Husbandry. It says:

“ One of the most active and vigorous co-
operative bodies which have been organized
on a popular basis within the last few years
of the National Century, and which now
has its associate representation in almost all
parts of the country, is known as the Na-
tional Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry
devoted, as its name implies, to the interests
of agriculture. The declaration of princi-
ples put forth leaves no room for doubt as
to the character and purposes avowed by
this now powerful Order.”

‘The Declaration of Purposes was then
largely quoted, and the date of organization
given and facts relative to its growth and
usefulness.

EXTRAS are the order of‘ the day, and the
Cincinnati Grange Bulletin is about to issue
No. 6, Campaign Extra, devoted to the iii-
terests of the young people. It will tell of
the Gates Ajar, and of the Glad May Day.
I would that a few of them could find their
way into every Grange in Michigan, to be
read and passed around.

HENLY JAMES, of Indiana, member oftlie
Executive Committee National Grange:
“Farmers number at least one-half the pop-
ulation. while they really own but a small
proportion of the wealth of the country — a
proportion that is steadily growing less, un-
der the present system of consolidation of
wealth in the hands of the few. The power
of concentrated capital has always been
the enemy of republican institutions, and
there is more danger to be apprehended
from the power of wealth in this country
than all other causes combined.”

 

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

Times.

fiepartment.

MISS EDITH HELPS THINGS ALONG.

BRET IIARTE IN TH'E “INDEPE.\‘DENT."

“ My sister’ll be down in a minute, and says you're
to wait. if you please,

And says I might stay till she comes, if I’d promise
her never to tease.

Nor speak till you spoke ‘to me first: but that's non-
sense. for how would you know

What she told me to say. if I didn't? Don't you
really and truly think so?

And then you'd feel strange here all alone i And you
wouldn't know just where to sit,

For that chair isn't strong on its legs, and we never
use it a bit.

We keep it to match with the sofa.
it would be like you

To flop yourself right down upon it and knock out
the very last screw.

But Jack says

“ S'pose you try? I won’t tell. You're afraid tol
Oh, you’re afraid they would think it was mean i
VVell, then, there's the album,-—that’s pretty,— if
you're sure that your fingers are clean

For sister says sometimes I daub it: but she only
says that when she’s cross.

There’: her picture. You know it ? It's like her, but
she am“: as good-looking, of course I

“ This is ME. It's the best of ’em all. Now, tell me,
you'd never have thought

That once 1 was as little as that? It's the only one
that could be bought,

For that was the message to Pa from the photograph
man where I sat—

That he wouldn’t print off any more till he first got
his money for that.

“ What ! Maybe your tired of waiting. VVhy, often
she's longer than this.

There's all her back hair to do up, and all of her
front curls to friz.

But it's nice to be sitting here talking, like grown
people. just you and me.

Do you think you'll be coming here often? Oh, dol
But don't come like Tom Lee.

“ Tom Lee? Her last beau. TVhy, my goodness 1
He used to be here day and night,

Till the folks thought he'd be her husband, and Jack
says that gave him a fright.

You won't run away, then, as he did? for you're not
a rich man, they say.

Pa says you are as poor as a church-mouse. Now,
are you i’ And how poor are they ?

"Ain't you glad that you met me? Well, I am, for
I know now your hair i'sn’t red.

But what there is left it's mousy, and not what that
naughty Jack said.

But there I I must go. Sister's coming. But I wish
I could wait, just to see

If she ran up to you and kissed you, in the way she
used to kiss Lee.”

Uncle Nine Happy.

Dear lVephews and Nieces.-—I am happy
to find that so many of the young people
take or read the GRANGE VisiToR. I see
by reading the Grange Bulletin that one
little girl in Louisiana reads these columns,
and has written to Aunt Locksie about it.
I hope she will write to Uncle Nine some
time.

I hope all our young farm people will
learn to love the farm and the farmer's life
for it is the best and most important calling
upon the earth. Read what Cassius M.
Clay, of Kentucky, once said of farming,
“ There are few arts and sciences that do not
contribute to agriculural skill, and I venture
to say that there is no wider field for all the
powers of a large and sagacious intellect
than that of farming. Many suppose that
any sort of an intellect will answer for a.
farmer, and when a son seems unfit for any-
thing else he is so made. I say, if you have
a boy of bright intellect make a farmer of
him, if stupid and indolent throw him
away by making him a lawyer, a doctor, or
a preacher.”

Now while this is for young people,I hope
many of your fathers and mothers will read
it. and if they don’t you read it to them!
Yes,and a great many other things that are
found iII the VIs1ToR.

Now, friends did you ever try to get up a
club for the VISITOR ? Try and interest all
you can in the farm and its interests; the
Grange and its teachings; the Patron and
his duties; the home and its comforts, and
you will find yourself much interested in
them all.

I have made aquotation from Cassius M.
Clay. Who will write me through the VIS-
ITOR, giving a history of this gentleman?

tead, think, and then write.
Truly, I am
UNCLE NINE.

Uncle Nine.-—I will try and answer some
of the questions in the last VISITOR. The
only President of the United States now
living is James A. Garfield. He lives in
VVasbington. There are two ex-Presidents
living, Gen. Grant, now of New York city,
and R. B. Hays, of Ohio. S. J. Tilden,
who s"Ine say was once elected, is also liv
ing in New York city. There are only two
divisions of the Western continent, and
only two continents, so I suppose we should
say the larger not the largest. The two
lines of poetry are found in the “Lady of the
Lake,” written by Sir Walter Scott. They
refer to the warriors of Roderick Dhu.

JosIE L. SCOTT.

Uncle Nine.-——Seeing some questions in
the VIsIToR for young folks to answer, I
thought that I would try my luck on the
train of cars, and this is my answer: For
convenience we will number the trains Nos.
land 2. Now train No. 1 runs onto the
switch and is cut. in two and leaves the rear
halt standing on the switch. then runs out
on the main track and backs down by the
switch. No. 2 runs up past the switch and
backs down and pushes the cars of No. 1 out
on the main track; then No. 1 runs on
the main track, and brings No. 1. cars
with it and cuts them into, opposite the
switch. Then No. 1 pulls out on the main
track, and backs down and connect the
train, and they have passed each other. I
would like to have some of the little folks
tell me how 19 trees can be set out so as to
have nine rows with five trees in each row.

Yours, truly, U. B. s.

Lowell, March 27, 1881.

A good way to treat corn ground that is
known to be infested with cutworms is to
plow it just before planting. The worms will
be buried so deeply that the plants can have
opportunity to get out of their reach before
they get to the surface; or, perhaps, the
worms feed on the sod turned under and so

31 00.

THE REAPER, DEATH.

COX. -— WHEREAS. The hand of Providence has
been put forth and has snatched from our midst by
death our worthy brother. John Cox: and
WHEREAS, By the death of Brother Cox the Grange
has lost a good member, the community a good neigh-
bor, aud the family a. good husband, a kind father
and an uflectionate parent; therefore be it

Resolved, That the members of this Grange extend
our heartfelt sympathies to the bereaved lamily.
Resolred, That these resolutions be spread upon
the records of this Grange, and that copies be pre-
sented to the family of the deceased, and also to the
GaANoR Vrsrroa for publication.

Louis RI;INor.n'r,
CnAs BLOOD.

A. S. HILDRETB,

Committee.

SWEET.—Died at her home in Genoa, Livingston
county, Jan. 17, 1831, aged 26 years, our much-loved
sister, Mrs. FRANCIS Swi-:ET, of consumption. With
trusting faith and quiet patience she waited for the
final summons from the Great Master above.

As she will nevcrmore give us words of good cheer,
nevermore extend to us the hand of fellowship. and
pevermore grace our hall with her presence, — there-
ore

Resolved. That we unite incxpressions of heartfelt
sympathy with her family, in this their great bereave-
merit.

Ifcsolred, That our charter be draped in mourning
f0!‘ 511$)‘ <1‘~'l)‘S_. 8. copy of these resolutions be present-
ed to the family of the dc-ceiised, be spread upon the
rccordsr-f the Grange, and sent to the GRANGE VIB-
Iron with a. request for publication.

Miss E. J. Frsnnscx,
MRS. C. SCIIOEMIALS,
MRS.C]lAS.FISll1lECK,

Committee.

\VO0LSEY.——-Died in Scipio, oII the 18th of Feb-
ruary, 1831, after nearly a year's lingering illness,
JOHN F. \Vo0Lsi~:Y, in his 00th year, a member of
Scipio Grange, No. 106.

\VIIERI:As. It has pleased an All-wise Providence

to remove by death our much-esteemed brother;
therefore

Rt’-Y011’t’!1. That, while we bow with reverence to
the decree of our Great llliisti-I‘ above, we deeply feel
the loss of our friend and brother.

1i’esolvr (I, l'li:it we syinpiitliize with the widow and
family of our deceased brother in this their bereave-
ment, and commend them to that God who is too
wise to err and too good to do wrong.

Resolvul, Tliat a copy of these resolutions be en-
tered on the records of our Grange. and it copy be pre-
sented to the widow of our deceased brother, also
one sent to the GBANGE V'IsIToR for publication.

D. C. HOLMES,

A. Sroimi-:s.

S. I). BROWER,

Couiniittce.

DAVIS.-—Wm:REAs. It has pleased our Heavenly
Father to remove from our midst by death our Wor-
thy Chaplain, Brother Ji sse M. Davis, who died Mar.
3, 1881, in the 09th year of his age; therefore
Resolved, That in the death of Brother Davis, this
Gritnge has lost an earnest rind consistent member,
his family a kiiidanti indulgent husband and futher,
and the community it worthy and useful citizen.
Resolved, That as 8. Grunge we sympathize with
the widow, the children rind friends of our deceased
brother in their great affliction and sad l)IZ'l'CftV( merit,
and commend them to our Heavenly Father, who
doetli all things well."

Resolved, That these resolutions be entered upon
our Grange record. and a copy be tuniished to the
family of. our deceased brother, and also to the
GRANGE V IsIToiI. for publication.

ALTANA CHAPMAN,

Wu. ALOATE.

J. A. CHAPMAN,
Committee.

Memorial of Lucy Cady.

[The following tribute to the memory of
Sister Lucy Cady, who died March 21st,
1881, aged 65, was read before a meeting of
Oakland Pomona Grange, No. 5, and by a
unanimous vote of the Grange it is sent, to
VISITOR for publication.]

It has been said that it is better to go to
the house of mourning than to the house of
feasting, for by it the heart is made better.
To-day we have met in the Grange for socia-
bility, greeting of friends, literary enjoy-
ment, and to advance the interests of our
noble Order. In all probability our expec-
tations will be realized to a certain extent.
VVe will go home better friends, better Pa-
trons, and resolved to do better and more
efilcient work in the future than in the past.

Yet amid our enjoyment of to-day the
thought comes with peculiar emphasis to our
remembrance that our first Pomona is not
with us. Her place is vacant, no more to
be filled by her again. So many of us can
call to mind the interest she gave to each of
our meetings, and with what dignity and
gracefulness she presided over Pomona.’s
Court, and when she gave the charge to the
candidates it was done with so much earn-
estness and impressiveness that it would
seem to be so indelibly engraved upon each
mind that it would brighten through all
time.

It was but a reiteration of her life work.
Her usefullness was ever on the side of the
right, and her heart was filled with a love
for humanity. Hers was an unselfish life,
and her motto, “ love for all, hatred toward
none,” and she wore the “mantle of chari-
ty ” as an everyday garment.

Sister Cady was never hilarious in her en-
joyment, yet she had a pleasant smile, and
often gave a practical joke or sharp iepartee,
and all who came within the radius of her
influence were infused with joy, not sadness.
She had a sunny, even temper, and as we
saw her once so we might expect to see
at other times.- It seems so strange to us
short-sighted mortals that the good, the
beautiful and influential are taken from our
midst when we need them so much, while
those who are no good to themselves or the
world are left to pester society and be a. blot
upon humanity. -

Sister Cad y left an unblemished record,and
has gone to reap a rich reward. Her dear,p5-
tient, helpful. hands have laid down their
life’s work, but the work she began another
will takeit up, and so it will continue as the
years come and go. Let us emulate her ex-
ample in our everyday life, and the world

will be better for our having lived in it.
MYRA.

permit the corn to escape.

   
  
   
  
 
   
    
    
 
 
  
    
  
   
  
   
  
 
  
  
 
 
   
    
  
 
   
   
 
 
  
  
 
  
   
   
  
 
 
  
 
   
 
  
 
 
  
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
 
 
 
  
    
 
 
  
 
 
     
  
   
  
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
   
  
  
   
  
 
    
 
  
  
  
 
    
    
    
  
   
   
  
 
 
     
   
   
  
 
   
  
 
  
 
   
  
   
     
  
  
    
    
 
  
  
   
   
  
  
 
 
  
  
  
 
    
  
  
 
  
 
  
  
 
 
  
   
  
  
  
 
 
  
 
      
    
    
   

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v to act as agent of the Order in that city. Mr.

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SCHOOLCRAFT, - - MAY 151‘, 1881.

%hreIari’$ Eiptmfmmll.

J. T. Cons, - - — — Scnoorcaarr.

C0-OPERATIVE STORES AND AGENCIES.

The experience of those communities that
have established co- operative stores, has not
been entirely satisfactory. Here and there
keeping goods in stock, has been of advan-
tage to all concerned. But the successes
have not equalled the failures. The failures
that have resulted in loss have not generally
been without some benefit, though the ben-
efit has not always accrued to the right party.
We have become satisfied that, with the
arrangements made with Bro. Mason of
Chicago, and with the standing offer of
Brother Stegeman of Allegan, and the op-
portunity of getting goods through Geo. VV.
Hill of Detroit, that it is not advisable at
present for Granges to establish co-operative
stores for the purpose of keeping a stock of
general merchandise.

It is true there are a few stores in the
State that are on a firm basis and doing
well, and it is just as true that there have
been a good many failures. There are local-
ities remote from villages and large towns
where it may be advisable to establish a co-
operative store. But in all such places those
interested should, before they go into it, al-
ways be sure that they have the right sort
of a man to take charge of the business, and
that man must not be afraid of doing
some work that he don’t expect to get much
pay for. The fact is established that Patrons
or others can join in ordering many (not all)
kinds of goods, and get them at a very small
advance on wholesale rates. The standing
and reliability of Brother Mason of Chicago
is established, and we are quite sure that he
is both willing and anxious to serve the
Patrons of Michigan. Brother Stegeman of
Allegan has been the most successful man-
ager of any man in Michigan, who has
undertaken to run a co-operative store. Last
year he sold over $100,000 worth of goods,
the purchasers paying never more than four
per cent more than the cost of goods at the
store. Brother Stegeman works hard, and
never loses sight of the “ Good of the
Order.” VVith his large experience in the
business, and the determination he has
always evinced to take good care of his cus-
tomers, we have no hesitation in saying
that Patrons will find it both safe and profit-
able to order goods of him.

In the matter of Geo. W. Hill, of Detroit,
we wish to have the facts clearly understood.
The firm of Geo. VV. Hill & Co. were last-
year the bonded agents of the Order in De-
troit, under an arrrngement made with the
Executive Committee of the State Grange.
Last winter, with the dissolution of the firm
the arrangement of course ceased, and as
our Executive Committee have had no meet-
ing since, no arrangement has been made
with Geo. W. Hill or anyone else in Detroit,

Hill continued in the commission business
at the old stand of the firm, and has kept an
advertisement standing in the VISITOR. As
we said at the outset, from various sources
we learn that he is doing very much more
business for the Order than the firm of Geo.
W. Hill & Co. ever did, and so far we have
heard of no complaint.

Now, there are a large number of Patrons
in Michigan. They have many wants to
supply from day to day, and there is no
reason why they should not avail them-
selves, as other people do, of all opportu-
nities to better their condition in any fair,
legitimate way that may be presented. Your
wheat crop will be short this year, and un-
less the price should take an unexpected
boom, you will have to make a little money
cover more wants next fall than last.

We believe all these parties, as well as
those managing the few successful co opera-
tive stores in different parts of the State,
will deal honorably with all those who may
do business with them. You can certainly
save some money by ordering many things
that you must have, of some one of these
parties. And we have no hesitation in say-
ing that we believe you can do so with en-
tire safety. There is room for all to do a
large business, and we believe they will.

A QUESTION ANSWERED.

Bro. Cobb:-—Why do the State and Na-
tional Granges admit clergymen and per-
sons of various occupations, not farmers,
and then send out Constitutions and By-
laws for the government of Subordinate
Granges forbidding us to admit such mem-
bers? Many believe it best to admit those
friendly, even though they do not belong to
the very aristocratic fraternity of farmers.

Respectfully, G. w. K.

We are not aware that “The State and
National Grange admit ciergymen and per-
30113 of various occupations not farmers.”
The State and National. Granges are com-
posed of persons that Subordinate Granges
have admitted to full membership, and as
members of these bodies, it is too late to en-
quire how closely the Subordinate Grange
that clothed them with the rights and priv-

TEE GRANGE VISEEQE.

ileges of the Order adhered to the Consti-
tution of the National Grange.
This brother has missed the mark aimed
at.
____._________.__
THE WHEAT CROP.

In answer to our request for reports from
farmers of the condition and prospects of
wheat on the ground we have a few- returns
—much less than we expected.

A report from Hartford, Van Buren
county, says: “ VVheat has looked very
bad so far this spring. Our Grange farmers
think that with the most favorable weather
three-fourths of a crop may be had.

C. L. Young, Secretary of Ross Grange,
in the north part of Kalamazoo county,
says: “ I am instructed by our Grange to
inform you that the wheat in the jurisdic-
tion of this Grange will not exceed one-
third of a crop.

Geo. M. Kinney, Lainsburgh, writes that
from towns in Shiawassee county, and
several localities in Clinton county reports
were gathered at a Grange meeting on the
23d. The prevailing opinion was that not
more than half a crop could be expected.
“ Many do not expect more than five bush-
els per acre. Call this croaking if you will,
but I believe it to be a fair statement of
facts.”

W. L. Simons, Secretary of Battle Creek
Grange, and supervisor of the township of
Emmett, estimates the crop in that town-
ship from three to five bushels, and thinks
Emmett will do as well as the average of
Calhoun county. He adds that the farmers
still hold about one-fourth of the old crop.

Hiram Shipman, Grand Ledge, under date
of April 23, answers “W'hat shall the Harvest
be,” by saying that “after a four days’ drive
through Eaton county, and seeing thous-
ands of acres of wheat fields, and with 25
years, experience as a Michigan farmer, I can
truthfully say I never saw the wheat look so
sickly as at present. Many are expecting to
plow up their wheat fields for corn. From
the present outlook I would not estimate the
yield at over ten bushels per acre on the
best half of the sowing, with the other half
far below.”

From Branch county we have three let-
ters. The first dated April 23 from W. E.
Wright, Coldwater, represents that from
reports gathered at a meeting of the County
Grange on the 19th the conclusion reached
was that the probable yield would be from
one—half to two-thirds of a crop. '

Brother B. S. Spofford writes from
Orangeville,same county,that “there cannot
be more than one-half a crop in that part of
the county-—that he has 20 acres that he is
plowing up, and that many others are doing
the same.”

Brother C. G. Luce, of Gilead, Branch
county, after a review of the various ways
that wheat has been injuriously affected.
sums up with the conclusion: “ On the
whole, if we get two-thirds of a crop in this
vicinity, it will be all that we can do.”

From their reports, and what can be
gathered from what we have said elsewhere.
our readers can draw their own conclusions.
The prospect is certainly had, and only the
most favorable conditions of weather can
give us a fair crop.

_____,____._m
A QUICK TRIP AND PLEASANT VISITS.

Byalate train on the 18th of April we
left home to carry into effect a purpose long
since formed of visiting Brother and Sister
Childs at their home. His protracted ill-
ness confining him through all the long
winter, the most of the time to his house, or
at most to his premises had prevented our
meeting him as of old.

Leaving Kalamazoo just before eight.
a little before 10 o’clock P. M. the fast
train pulled into Jackson, and in a few
minutes we were at the house of a friend to
make good a promised visit. We put in the
remainder of the day and a couple of hours
the next morning in a most satisfactory
manner with our Jackson friends, and be
fore 10 o’clock, A. M. we dropped off at
Ypsilanti, to find our wife waiting for us at
the depot. She had preceded me a week,
visiting some friends in this part of the
State.

Bro. Childs kindly furnishing transporta-
tion, we were soon on our way to his farm in
the township of Augusta, some eight miles
south of the city. The day was bright, and
we had a very pleasant ride over this level
country that in general appearance bore less
evidence of having been settled a half cen-
tury than our own county.

We found Brother Childs on the road
looking after some sheep, 80 rods or more
from his house. He was looking better than
I had expected, and his numerous friends
will all be glad to know that he is gradual-
ly improving. His throat. however, is seri-
ously affected, and gives him a good deal of
trouble. '1‘he disease was probably produc-
ed by too much public speaking, still
continued after the organs of speech had
been irritated and injured.

Brother Childs has had more zeal than
care for himself. and only desisted from
that soft of exposure when absolutely com-
pelled to.

We were very cordially received by sister
Childs, and soon felt quite at home. After
dinner we strolled out to look at the premi-
ses, and witness the general havoc made by
the Butler & Detroit railroad, which was
constructed last year, and running a few

rods from his house required the removal of
all his barns, sheds, and out-buildings to
maintain its air line direction from Detroit,
a long distance. As I rememberit was stated
to me, some 60 miles without acurve.

As railroad corporations have some arbi-
trary legal rights that respect no man’s con-
venience or wishes Brother Childs was com-
pelled to move all his’ buildings in haying
and harvest, and dig up an acre of good
young orchard to clear a site for them. The
road is in an unfinished and unfenced state,
and as it is already doing a considerable
freight business the farmers along the line
are subjected to a great deal of annoyance.‘

This is a fine dairy country, and Brother
Childs has a fine farm better adapted to
grass than our lands in the western part of
the State, but we should think not as good
grain land.

A cheese factory in the neighborhood is
well patronized and is a success. A good
many other neighborhoods in Michigan
ought to have cheese factories, and will
when Dakota farmers drive our people out
of the wheat raising business.

VVe spent the afternoon pleasantly and
tarried over night, returning to Ypsilanti
the next morning in time for the day ex-
press to Kalamazoo. We left Bro. Childs
and his wife full of hope that with the re-
turn of the genial, mellow spring weather,
his health would so improve that he would
be again able in the course of the season to
take the field and do more good work for
the farmers oftlie State and the Order he
loves so well.

VVe thought to get a better opinion of the
apparent condition of the wheat crop in the
line of our travel we would grade each field
as we passed on our way home, and we con-
dense the whole in the following brief sum-
mary:

We make five grades. First, the few
fields that by location and protection were
extra good, 10. Second, the fields that
seemed but little injured, 45. Third, fields
that under favorable conditions will make a
fair crop, 78. Fourth. poor, 112. Fifth,
very poor or nearly worthless, 71. These
figures were made on the 20th, and before
many of our readers see this they will have
been much modified by timely rains and
warm days. .

We reached the conclusion that the most
favorable conditions of weather must prevail
to give the farmers half a crop in the district
of country that we passed over from Ypsi-
lanti to Schoolcraft via Kalamazoo.

__________m__.__

“THE ONLY AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL PUBLISHED
IN MICHIGAN.”

Agriculture is the most important indus-
try ‘prosecuted in l\lichigan—employs more
people, and has more invested capital than
any other business interest within its limits.
Periodicals published expressly to promote
the great agricultural interests of the State
are not numerous. The publishers of the
Michigan Farmer, appreciating the impor-
tance of the position, long ago concluded to
put themselves at the head of this vast
industry and publish “the only agricultural
journal published in Michigan.”

This was a laudable ambition, and while
the Farmer remained “the only agricul-
tural journal published in Michigan” might
very properly be advertised at the head of
its editorial page. But this broad field,
altogether too large for these able editors of
the Farmer to fill, invited others to occupy,
and years ago the invitation was accepted.
This fact a great many thousand people in
the State have been familiar with, but the
Farmer folks, it seems, don't know it when
told of it. In proof of this we cite an article
in the editorial department of the Vrsrron
of April 1st.

VVe have known people before who could
not see themselves as others see them, but
seldom have we seen men who aspired to
the high rank of standing at the head of the
chief industry of a great State, do so silly a
thing as to keep in a conspicuous position a
pretentious falsehood that had not even the
poor merit of deceiving anybody.

__________________

WE had a pleasant call from Bro. T. J.
Shoemaker, Sec’y of Mt. Clemens Grange.
He is traveling in the interest of Cortright
of Lansing, carrying a sample fanning mill
and taking orders of Patrons at grange
prices. He is also soliciting orders for Geo.
W. Hill of Detroit. From Bro. Shoemaker,
as well as from other sources, we learn that
the business of Mr. Hill has been good this

spring. and is on the increase.
_________,______

NEW advertisements in this issue: The
Eureka Mill, manufactured at Lansing,
said to be an excellent implement, and sold
to Patrons at bottom prices. Seed potatoes
by Joseph Morris, of Sanilac county,
has not been sent us any too soon;
Alabastine, a substitute for paint, ka1so-
mine, and white-wash. Those who know
assure us that this, on its merits, is taking
the place of all other preparations for a wall
covering. We advise our people to give it a
trial. See also the “ad ” of Joseph Shaw—
horse nets; Fenno & Manning, wool com-
mission merchants, Boston; and 0. B.
Ranney—bees.

In proof of the value of the VISITOR

as an advertising sheet, we refer to the ad.
of J. H. Gardner in Vrsrron of April 15,
When received this was ordered in twice.
Before the second issue we got a note from
Brother Gardner, saying, “Don’t repeat
my ad. ; have had more orders than I have
potatoes." ’

MAY 1s'.r, 1881.

T0 CORRESPONDENTS.

“Aunt Kate’s” article on the Health of
American VVomen is postponed for a time.
“Winseerine’, has made some good hits,
but we have not time to fix up her article
in such shape as would be acceptable to our
readers, or to the writer herself.

Some of our lady correspondents complain
that we have not published their articles.
Well, ladies we can’t give you all the paper
nor put two articles in the same place. VVill
do the best we can for you.

__._._____.____._..

FROM Bro. Wm. L. Van Dyke, of Olive
Grange, we have a report of its prosperity.
The brother also refers to a very successful
meeting of the Clinton County Pomona
Grange, held at De VVitt, when all were
handsomely entertained in true Grange
style by the members of I)e VVitt Grange.
Bro. Van Dyke represents the discussions as
highly interesting and instructive, and give
us encouraging evidence of the value of the
County Grange.

S’I‘l<II’HEN GEEK wants us to change the
address of his VISITOR to Rose Center,
which we will do when he informs us where
we are now sending it. His address is mix-
ed up with several thousand other names,
and we have no time to look it up.

AN obituary notice from Capitol Grange
will be found on the opposite page. From
our personal acquaintance with Bro. Row-
land L‘. 'I‘rowbridge, we feel that this death
notice contains no fulsome praise—only
honest tribute to manly worth.

The Great Question.
BY H. 'r. NILES.

The proper regulation, by public author-
ity, of the transportation of the products of
the farm and factory from the producer to
the consumer, is a matter in which nine-
tenths of the people of every section of the
country are directly and personally inter-
ested, and must be one of the great questions
of the future.

In importance, it rises far above any that
has ever agitated our people, except the one
great question, of whether we should be
ONE COUNTRY, or a COLLECTION of W'AR-
RING STATES.

A matter of such broad, vital and endur-
ing importance should not be considered in
any narrow spirit, or with reference to any
class-interest.

The principles of English law, which is
but another name for the commonsense and’
spirit of fair dealing of the English people,
applied to our present state of development,
would give the question a solution at once
comprehensive and just. These principles,
however, have by a variety of causes become
so overlaid that they have been lost sight of,
and the owners of our great lines of transpor-
tation have become a law unto themselves,
and the great mass of our people have be-
come the despairing victims of these gigantic
combinations.

In the early development of our railroad
system, when everybody was anxious for
railroads, on any terms, and at any cost, it
was natural that neither legislatures or
courts should hold them very strictly to
their obligations to the public, and since
then,Congress,the State Legislatures and the
courts have been filled with railroad law-
yers, whose interests and training cause
them, perhaps -in many cases unconsciously,
to lean to the interests of the railroads and
against the interests of the people and the
spirit of the law itself. This tendency has
of late become so marked as to attract the
attention of the gatherer of items for the
readers of the daily press.

In his letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer,
of November 18, 1880, Gath, one of the most
observant and intelligent of the professional
correspondents, says:

“The present Bench, and pending ap-
pointees upon it will be lawyers, who take
stiff views in favor of vested interests and
the rights of property, even against the
Government. The Supreme Bench is being
made up more and more of railroadlawyers.
Bradley and Strong were put there for rail-
road purposes.”

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By almost imperceptible degrees, by act
after act, and decision after decision, a sys-
tem of railroad law has been gradually
built up, leaning more and more to these
great corporations, until now it leans away
from the principles of public right and jus-
tice, "-more than the celebrated Tower of
Pisa leans from the true perpendicular.

By this succession of favoring legislation
and decision, the great railroads of the
country, protected in a system of exaction
and oppression, have grown strong enough
to swallow up the weaker ones, and the
strong men in these corporations have, in
like manner, gathered up almost for noth
ing the stock of the people whose money
built our railroads, until now, two men in
New York, one in Philadelphia, and one in
Baltimore control our whole transportation
system, and can or will raise freights over
the whole country on all the products of
farm or factory, at once reducing the legiti-
mate profits of the producer and increas-
ing the cost to the consumer, apparently
thinking that the people have no rights that
a railroad is bound to respect.

Indeed. it has come to this, that the chat-
tel property of some of these railroad kings
is more than the entire chattel duplicate of
several of the States of the Union, and by
lending their money on call bonds they can
produce an easy money market, and by
suddenly calling it in, they can produce a
public panic.

In the presence of such startling facts, in-
to what insignificance sink questions of
bank and sub-treasury, and tariff, that have
divided the people into two great political
parties!

Revolutions have been
causes.

This is the evil we all see and feel.

What is the remedy ‘I We need no revo-
lution. We need no departure from broad,
well-established principles of law. We need
no stretching of the constitutional pow-
ers of government. What we need is:

lst. That the people should be aroused to
a true appreciation of the importance of this
question.

produced by less

2nd. Phat they should not allow them-
selvesto be divided into hostile parties by
designing demagogues, on important ques-
tions, to the neglect of their real interests.

3d. That they should no longer allow

s to be misrepresented in State

res, or in Congress, or on the

_ ' lawyers or by mere party

hacks, who can be ruled by railroad lobbies
or bought by railroad money.

4th. That the Legislatures of the differ-
ent States and Congress should use the pow-
er they clearly possess to protect. the people
and that the Judges should apply the rig:
ciples taught by the great lights of the ‘ng-
lish and the earlier American bench and
bar to our present condition,and the remedy
is reached.

By what right does a railroad exist and
use the private property over which it pass-
es‘? Its whole right rests on a broad and
liberal extension, not to say stretching, of
the right reserved by the sovereign power
when parting with the title of land to con-
struct over it necessary highways for public
use.

The idea of private gain did not even
enter as an element into this right.

Except on this ground, a railroad has no
more right to take my land and use it with-
out my consent than the President of the
railroad to take my horse and use it without
my consent.

Another principle connected with all pub-
ic easements is that every one may use them
on terms of exact equality, as the peasant
with his cart had the same right to use the
king’s highway as had the nobleman with
his coach-and-four.

This right properly enforced would cut up
by the roots one great abuse of our present
transportation system, which is favoring lo-
calties, individuals or transportation com-
panies composed of the otiicers of our great
railroads, which at once rob the stockhold-
ers and rob the public.

The power to protect the public thus
comes from the very nature of the right of
railroads to exist.

Thereis another broad ground of common
law, which would give the proper public
authority complete control of all railroad
transportation. This is, that railroads are
common carriers.

The English Parliament, long before our
independence, exercised without question
the right to regulate charges for the trans-
portation of goods of every kind by all com-
mon carriers both by land and water.

as as -"+ -no ->e as as as -is

There can be no hope or expectation of
relief from these evils without a thorough
reorganization of the State Legislatures and
of Congress.

The railroad lawyers must be left at home,
no matter how long they have been in pub-
liclife, or how able they be, for the abler
the better for the railroads and the worse
for the people, an(i all those must be left out
who accept favors from railroads or ride on
railroad passes, no matter what banner they
may fly or what party shiboleth they may
cry.

None must be elected but those who be-
lieve bolh in the power and (lie duty of the
Government to protect the people from op-
pression and spoiliation by these overgrown
and insolent corporations.

Indeed, the country is governed too much
by lawyers. Many of our most valuable
pitiblic men have been from other callings in
1 e.

If Congress and the State Legislatures
were made up principally from other call-
ings and professions there would no doubt
be less talking but more practical, useful
legislative work. '

It may also be necessary to reorganize
the courts by removing one by one as they
can be reached, the judges devoted from
training and interest to those great corpora-
tions.

The courts have almost without attracting
public attention been organized in their in-
terest. and there would be no great harm in
trying the experiment of reorganizing them
in the interest of the people.

There are good lawyers enough not wedded
to any special interest, and who would at
once bejust to the railroads, andjust to the
people—and even if there were not, there
would be no great difficulty in finding men
in other callings, whose sound common
sense and clear perceptions of right andjus-
tice would be a full equivalent for the smat-
tering of law which is the sole qualification
of too many of those who now bear the
once honored name of Judge.

To accomplish these results is much eas-
ier than would first appear, for it is not
necessary to go through the slow process of
forming a new party. '

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It is therefore of but little practical im-
portance to the great mass of people wheth-
er the man who represents them in Congress
or the State Legislature is called a Demo-
crat or Republican, but it is vastly import-
ant to them that he should believe that the
government has the power to prevent a few
men in the East from lowering the price of
every pound of produce raised by every
farmer in the VVest, and and at the same
time raising it to every consumer in the
country by, exorbitant and unconsionable
charges for transportation, and it is vastly
important that he should be a man of sulfi-
cient intelligence, integrity, and force to
carry this conviction into appropriate legis-
lative action, no matter what the party can-
cus may say, or what the railroad lobby
may do.

The manufacturer and laborer of the East
and the negro and the planter of the South
are even more interested in compelling the
railroads to accept uniform, just and reason-
able rates than the farmer of the West, for
with his new, rich land he can get along
under any system of extortion. Whenever
one-half of those who are to-day thor-
oughly convinced that the correction of
these manifold abuses is more important to
them and to the people at large than an -
thing the party leaders have left to tafk
about, and will resolutely say that when
two candidates are presented for their suffra-
ges, they will vote for the one who is thor-
oughly and earnestly right on this question
and will vote against the one who is wrong
or doubtful without regard toparty names,
the end is almost reached. Indeed, if one
thousand men in every Congressional dis-
trict in the country would take this position,
the next Congress would not only pass the
Reagan bill but would pass all other needed
legislation and if the same course were taken
with candidates for the Legislature, the
eminent railroad lawyers now filling the
United States Senate, would soon be left to ,1
devote their whole time to the interests oi‘ {
their clients.

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ensues visiuon.

5

 spams! "

[01-iginal—hut a little late for the last number,
where it should have uppeared.—En. VIsI'ron.j

This might be called an ode to Spring,
If Spring were near enough to hear it,
But, at her present_ rate of traveling, I fear it.

Where loiterest thou, 0 Spring?

And why art thou so slow in coming?
Long, long we've waited for the gentle voice
That bids each blossom waken and rejoice.

Where art thou staying? Has some spirit wild
Enticed thee to delay, as erring child,

Grown restless under Love’: detaining hand,
Defies restraint, nor listens to command?

What is it woos thee from our wistful sight?
Shivering with cold, we wait thy coming light,
Thy misty mom and sunny noon-day gllre,
Thy dewy eve, like Love's young dream so fair.

All this we're waiting to enjoy, and more.
Yes, earth is filled with beauty, running o'er,
Waiting for thee, O truant Spring, to break
The icy bonds you’ve helped so long to make.

Come, then, nor longer play on us these pranks;
Come and receive a Patron’s grateful thanks.
Our plows are waiting to subdue the land,

If thou, 0 Spring, Will: lend a helping hand.

Our harrows and our drills we've brought to light,
Thinking that surely you would be in sight,

With thy soft breath, this cold north wind to warm ;
This ice to melt, and save our wheat from harm.

Our shovels and our rakes we too have found,

We've mended all the handles and our hoes we've
ground

All sharp and bright; they wait the garden spot to
tackle

When thou shalt come to free us from this awful
wintry shackle.

Yes; everything is waiting, and we guess you're
waiting too ;

But where so long, and why so late is more than we
we can know;

If “in the lap of winter,” ’tis time that you were out;

And anyway we think ’tis time we knew your wher-
about.

Ionia Grange, No. 191.

Report of the Committee of the Northwestern
Produce Association.

Editor V£s2'tor:—At the annual meeting
of the “Northwestern Produce Association"
a committee of five was appointed to exam-
ine the books of Thomas Mason, the agent
of the association, and Chicago business
agent of the Michigan State Grange. In
pursuance of said appointment, the com-
mittee met at St. Joseph on the 14th of
April, and made a. thorough examination of
the books and details of the‘ business of the
present agent, Brother Thomas Mason, of
159 South Water street, Chicago. The asst»
ciation was organized nearly four years
since by the Patrons of Berrien county, for
the purpose of establishing a commission
house in Chicago, which should be managed
by an appointee of the association, who
should give bonds for the faithful perform-
ance of the business entrusted to him, and
who should be amenable to and subject to
removal by, the association. The associa-
tion was not organized for special benefits
which might accrue to individuals or to the
association, but the results desired were the
establishment of a house in Chicago, which
should sell our fruits and produce at the
best possible rate, and make honest returns,
and to purchase, 011 our orders, all varieties
of goods and implements in the open mar-
ket at the lowest wholesale prices. During
the autumn of 1877 the association sent J. C.
Miller to Chicago. Brother Miller opened
astore on Market street, and succeeded in
sustaining himself during the winter, but
as the business requireda better location,
and more extended operations, Brother
Miller resigned in the spring of 1878, and
Thomas Mason was induced to leave his
fruit farm and take charge of the business.
Upon opening a Grange commission house
on South Water street, Brother Mason en-
countered determined opposition by most of
the houses on the street. He was subjected
to petty annoyances, and a short “ lease of
life” was predicted for the Granger, and
much difficulty was experienced in sustain-
ing the business during the first year.
Shippers of fruit from the Michigan fruit
regions have, however, understood the im-
portance of sustaining the Michigan agency,
and many fruit growers, both within and
without the gates, have given their business
to the Grange agent. We find that the bus-
iness has been largely augmented during the
‘past two years by transactions with the
people and Patrons of all of the States
which send fruit and country produce to the
Chicago market.

The business done during the past two
years has increased at the .rate of about
twenty thousand dollars per year. We
found the books lkept in a systematic and
comprehensive manner, by which individu-
al accounts or shipments can be found and
examined in a moment. Annual statements
of business done, showing expenditures,
etc., are placed on file.

We find that the expenses of conducting a
commission house business on South Water
Street are necessarily large. The item for
postage stsimps exceeds $400 per year. The
landlords of South Water Street go on the
principle of “ exacting all that, traffic will
bear,” by raising the rent from $1,200 to
$1,800 per year.

Believing the business to be firmly estab-
lished and worthy of more extended patron-
age we would reccommend the house to
members of the Grange in all of the States
which do business in Chicago.

C. P. PHELPS. Ch’m’n of Com.

The Visitor WanIed—-Legislature Criiicised.

Editor Grange Vz'sz'tor.-—- I have not re-
ceived a VISITOR since April 1. I thought
perhaps my subscription had expired and
under the rule you had stopped the paper,
so I examined the last number, but did not
find it marked. Now, I don't like to miss
a single number of so good a paper, there-
fore I enclose $1.00, for which please give
me credit, and don't stop the paper again
without due notice. Consider me a life-
subscriber, who will always pay in advance
when notified in time.

I see that nearly all the prominent city
journals are harping in the interest of spec
ulators and consumers about the fine pros-
pect for an average wheat crop. This should
deceive no farmer of common sense. Every
man of ordinary observation must know
that it is utterly impossible to obtain an av-
erage crop after such a severe winter. I
don’t believe the wheat has been so badly
killed throughout the entire winter wheat
sections in the memory of the oldest inhab-
iiant, as in the hard winter of 1880-81. This
section is probably in as good condition as
any in the Uiiion, and we cannot possibly
get more than one-half of last year's yield.
Therefore I advise brother farmers who have
Wheat on hand, to hold it for the rise,which
must surely come, and not let speculators
make all the profit.

When shall we ever get 9. legislature
which will faithfully and economically rep-
resent the grcac mass of the people, instead
of being controlled by profligate rings? It
seems that every succeeding legislature is
more profligate and has less regard for the
pcople’s interest than its predecessor. Itis
nearly four months since the present session
convened, and they have not passed a single
act of general benefit to the people, but have
passed enormous appropriation bills, with
more to follow, which will make over
$1,000,000 for the tax-ridden masses to pay.
When the bill reducing the rate of interest
to seven per cent. comes up. we have the
humiliating spectacle of 43 members voting
against it, and only 32 in its favor. Where
were the other 25? Please give us the names

of every member who voted for or against
reduction, with the absentees, that voters
may spot members who are controlled by
conscienceless Shylocks. One J. H. \Vhite,
member from Port Huron, had the cheek to
say, when be cast his vote in favor of pay-
ing the upper peninsula members $5 per
day, that every member earned and ought
to have that sum. VVlIat are they staying
there for, if their pay is inadequate? Cer

tainly it is not in the interest of the people.
All the work they have done or will do
might easily have been completed in 90
days; still they hang on, at an expense to
the tax-payers of not less than $800 per day.

RE1~‘oRMER.

Fences, Farm and Highway.

ORLEANS, IONIA Co., MICIL,
Bro. Cobb .- April 23rd, 1881.

I see the VISITOR of March 15th contains
questions from N. M. Farmer, and correc-
tion by “ Charlie” to article written by me
in regard to fence, farm, highway, etc. As
I expected my article would bring down
coals of fire on my head, I am not surprised
at meeting opposition, and must say it
comes with a great deal less fury through
the VISITOR than at the hands or tongues of
some of my near neighbors. I think an ex-
planation will not be necessary.

To N. M. F., I would say in answer to
your question, I made the exception (orch-
ard yards, etc-.), just on the same principle
that we sweeten baby’s medicine. The av-
erage farmer will accept it better if you al-
low some of the old customs to hang around
somewhere. My orchard is fenced, because
I use it for pig pasture, and I think it the
best thing for an orchard; but my garden
and house-yard is not fenced, except by a
small arbor vitae hedge, and that only in
front of my house for ornament.

My prescription unadulterated and with-
out sugar, would be to every man, take care
ofgour own stock. Now, Charlie, I want to
ask you a. question or two. You say the
part of the State in which you reside “every
man runs more or less stock in the road.”
I ask you, what right have you or any other
man to turn your cattle in the road ? You
certainly have no law or common sense to
sustain you in your practice. Supposing,
if by accident, there should grow a nice
swath of hay along your road-side, what
would you think of the man who would
shoulder his scythe or mount his mowing-
machine and unceremoniously harvest and
take away a ton more or less of hay.

Charlie, split the hair and tell me through
the VISITOR which half is common sense
and law, and which is not. Please bear in
mind, I urge no war on the custom of main-
taining road fences when the country is
new and there is pasture enough on the un-
occupied lands to ay the expense.

I stand correct 80 rods, which is more
than the average politcian will do. ’

Fraternally, &c.,
MONT SPAULDING.

New Granges.

Elm Creek Grange,town of North Branch.
Lapeer county, was organized on the 18th
with twenty members. Geo. Bennett, Mas-
ter, and Jacob W. Schell, Secretary.

Applications are in hand for two more
new Granges which will soon be organized.
So the good work goes on. Circulate the
VISITOR and other Grange literature among
the farmers of the country, and let them
see what the Grange is and can be. and there
will be more and better Granges than ever

FARMER JOHN.
In a nice new cottage lived Farmer John,
With his boys so trim and neat,
And his girls just patterned by mother J ane-
Bright and womanly sweet.

There was love in the cottage of Farmer John,
There was reverent household prayer;

It was thrifty without and bonny within,
Save for one failing there.

The ample storehouse of Farmer John
Was packed from sleeper to peak;

His purse had rounded out full and deep,
But for a single leak.

One sorrow there was for Farmer John;
His neighbor over the way

Was one who tarried long at the cup.
And he tarried day by day.

Now, it moved the heart of friendly John
To a kind, persuasive word;

He pleaded as man may plead with man,
Till the drunkard’s soul was stirred.

Said neighbor Nat, ‘- You're a good man, John,
Or I wouldn't bear your speech ;

Your sermon,——iI. has a right, true ring,
But I in turn must preach.

“ Say you the bottle that makes me mad
I must to my thirst deny ;
The weed that smirches your Christian face
Is never denied, say I.

“ I’ll pledge your honor, my good friend, John
If you will but pledge me, too ;
I never will drink another dram,
If you’ll never smoke nor chew.”

It touched the marrow of Christian John,
And he dare not now be loth ;

He quickly answered, " It shall be done;
And may God help us both ! ”

And now he reckoned. good Farmer John,
The cost of a vice so dear;

How health and sweetness had dribbled away
With the dollars year by year.

He wanted more acres—ambitious John-—
For his boys and girls to share:

But quid and pipe had drivoled and smoked
The acres into the air.

“ We’ve scotched our tyrants,” cried earnest John ;
By the grace of God we’ll kill I”
Now neigher Nat is a sober man,

The gravity with which Mr. George Tick-
nor Curtis argues that a State is legally
powerless to regulate the tolls of a railroad
corporation which it has chartered. will
make not a few of those smile who know
how well the law is settled by principle and
precedent to the contrary. From time
whereof the memory of man runneth not to
the contrary the government has exercised
the right of protecting the people against
the extortions and abuses of common carri-
ers, and, in fact, of all classes of persons and
corporations whose business is affected with
a public interest. In this country State
after State has passed statutes for the regula-
tion of railroad charges, and in half a dozen
cases at least the highest tribunal known to
American law has declared this to be a
rightful exercise of legislative power. De-
cisions to the same effect have been repeat-
edly rendered by lower courts. These con-
siderations, however, have not deterred Mr.
Curtis from advancing quite a different the-
ory of the law governing the respective
rights of the people and their corporate
servants. The right to regulate and con-
trol its own tolls, he asserts, is an inv'Iola-
ble, irrevocable right vested in a corpora-
tion and cannot be exercised by the State
without unlawfully impairing the obligation
of the contract created by the charter. He
goes so far as to argue that this is equally true
when the State has expressly reserved even
the right to alter or amend the charter, be-
cause this reserved power, he alleges, does
not extend to transportation charges, and
hence gives the legislature no authority to
interfere with such charges. Carried to its
natural and logical consequences, this theory
leads to the result that by the legitimate ex-
ercise of power expressly reserved to it
the State may annul the franchises granted
toacorporation,stopthe running of its trains,
destroy its business, out off‘ its dividends
and render its stock wothless, but it cannot
touch its toll schedules. The reductio
‘ad absurdum here must be sufficiently ap-
parent even to the most ordinary lay mind.
The pretence that the regulation of tolls
is beyond the reach of the government
rests on the assertion that sole control of
this matter is vested in the corporation by
the charter contract, which the State is
prohibited from. impairing. The conclusive
answer to this is that no such contract
exists, for the simple reason that none was
ever made. N o charter ever gave to a~rail-
road company the right to fix charges with-
out limit and without responsibility. No
legislature has ever entered into such a bar-
gain with a corporation created to serve the
people. In one of the Granger cases it ap-
peared that the charter expressly gave to the
company the right to make reasonable charg-
es,and the United States Supreme Court held
that it was not for the company, but for the
people, acting through their Legislature,
to say what were reasonable charges. But
even if the charter should expressly declare
that there should be no maximum limit to
the rates which the corporation might exact
this would not be an unalterable or inviola-
ble contract. It would be in effect a cove-
nant to plunder the people, and hence one
which no Legislature has the authority to
make. There are rights and powers of the
people which the Legislature cannot bargain
away. One of these is the police pow,er—the
power always inalienable in the people
to protect the public health, morals and
safety. Another is the right of the people to
save themselves from being pillaged. This
power, no more than the police power, can
be bartered away by the Legislature to any
railroad corporation.-New York Herald.

What Farm Deeds convey.

Judge Bennett, in an address before the
Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, upon
topics relating to legal questions in con-
necLion,with the farm, had thisto say in rela-
tion to farm deeds and what they include,
from which we compile the following:

A farm deed conveys all the fences stand-
ing on the farm, but all might not think it
also included the fencing stuff’, rails, osts,
etc., which had once been used in the ence,
but which had been taken down and piled
up for future use again in the same place.
But new fencing material just brought and
never attached to the soil would not ‘pass.

So of piles of hop poles stored away, if

before.

once used on the land, have been considered

a part of it, but loose boards or scaffold
poles laid loosely across the beams of a
barn, and never fastened to them would not
be. and the seller of the farm might take
them away.

Standing trees. of course, always pass as
a part of the land; so do trees blown or cut
down, and still left in the woods where they
fell, but not if out or corded up for sale;
thp wood has then become personal prop-
er y.

If there be any manure in the barn-yard,
or in a compost heap on the field ready for
Immediate use, the buyer ordinarily takes
that also as belonging to the farm : though
it might not be so if the owner had pre-
viously sold it to some other party, and col-
lected it together in a heap by itself.

Another mode is to stipulate that posses-
sion is not given until some future day, in
which the manure may be removed previous
to that time.

Growing crops also pass by a deed of a
farm, unless they are expressly reserved.
VVhen it is not intended to convey those, it
should be so stated in the deed itself; a mere
oral agreement to that effect would not be
valid in law.

As to the buildings on the farm, though
generally mentioned in the deed, it is not
absolutely necessary that they should be
specified.

A deed of land ordinarily carries all the
buildings to the grantee, whether men-
tioned or not; and this rule includes the
lumber and timber of any old building
which has been taken down or blown down,
and has been packed away for future use on
the farm.

But if there be any buildings on the farm
built by a third person, with the farmer’s
leave, the deed would not convey these,
since such buildings are personal property,
and do not belong to the land owner to con-
vey.

The real owner thereof might move them
off, although the purchaser of the farm
supposed he were buying and paying for all
the buildings on it. His only remedy in
such case would be against the party selling
the premises.

As part of the buildings conveyed, of
course the window blinds are included, even
if they be at the time carried oil‘ to a paint-
er’s shop to be painted. It would be other-
wise if they had been newly purchased and
brought into the house, but not yet attached
or fitted to it.

Lightning rods also go with the house,
——if a farmer is foolish enough to have any
on his house.

A furnace in the cellar, brick or portable,
is considered part of the house, but an
ordinary stove with a loose pipe running
into the chimney is not.

dnrrespnndenrq

Livingston County Council Resolutions.

Ata meeting of tho Livingston County
Council, held Saturday February 19, at the
Grange Hall, Howell, Bro. M. \V. Bullock
offered the following resolutions, requesting
their reference to special committee, which
was done:——

\VIIEREAs, The State Grange memorial-'
ized the State Legislature to enact a law
limiting all cases to Justice Court, under
the sum of one hundred dollars; and

VVHEREAS, Believing that John Quin-
cy Adams, “ the old man eloquent,” did
much for the civil liberty of this country in
his long and almost single handed contest
in the establishment in Congress of the
right of any one to petition; and

WHEREAS, Believing the free right of
petition and appeal is the foundation of civ-
il liberty, and the right should never be de-
nied to anyone, and believing the passage of
such an Act, viz., the limiting of all cases of
less amount than one hundred dollars to
Justice Court would be detrimental to the
civil liberty and the best interest of the
country; therefore

Resolved, That such an Act ought not to
be passed, and

WHEREAS, The bringing of triflingcases
in the Circuit Court, and continuing them
there for a term of years, not for the lurther-
ence of justice, but to the manifest injustice
of (gaxpayers, and the community at large;
an

WHEREAS, These matters are entirely in
the hands of the Judge of the Circuit Court
to extend the time to try the case or to dis-
miss from the docket; therefore,

Resolved, The Judge should be held re-
sponsible, and that a law ought to be passed
that no Judge should be allowed todraw his
pay from the County while there remains
any case on the calender untried longer than
one year after being entered in the County
Clerk’s office for adjudication unless dis-
missed or settled ; and

Resolved, That any Judge should not be
entitled to any pay if. or while, he should
neglect to render a decision on any case for
the space of six months after the trial or
final rendering of proofs; and,

VVHEREAS, Judges seemingly do not look
to the interests of tax-payers and communi-
ties; and,

WHEREAS, Judges are asking for increase
of salary; therefore

Resolved, Such an increase is not war-
ranted. MRS. W. K. Si-:x'roN,

Secretary.

Shiawassee Grange, No. I5I.

Bro. Cobb.-—As this Grange has never
favored the VISITOR with a report of our
successes co-laborers in the broad flelds of
Grange enterprise, I am inclined to let you
know how we are prospering and how we
feel in view of the future prosperity of the
Grange. On February first we moved into
a new ball, for which we pay $25 per year
rent, with an organ furnished. It is a bean:
tiful hall, nicely arranged for our work,
carpeted and seated with chairs. Our hall
is situated in the thriving little village of
Morrice. Last Wednesday evening we con-
ferred the third and fourth degrees on 12
new members, after which we partook of a
sumptuous feast. The tables were set in
the hall, and bountifully furnished by our
worthy sisters,to which we all sat down and
ate in a social way as Grangers always do
on such occasions. The balance of the even-
ing was given to instructing the new mem-
bers in the unwritten work. Then all de-
parted to their respective homes, feeling

that the evening had been pleasantly and
well spent. Our meetings are well attend-
ed, and we hope to make them profitable as
well as enjoyable. We have about 50 mem-
bers in good standing, and more knocking
at the outside gate. We have strong faith
in the future prosperity of this Order. VVe
believe that it will prosper because farmers
are becoming educated through this means
to a higher standard of citizenship, and are
beginning to feel that their occupation is
second to none. although their faces may be
browned by the rays of the burning sun,
and their hands may be hardened by the
labors of the field, ;yet they have brains
notwithanding, and can and will justly as-
sert theirrigbts and privileges as all good
citizens should.

That the Grange influence is being felt
and acknowledged throughout the length
and breadth of this nation i.-inn encouraging
fact that gives us great confidence in the
future of this country. A. w.

Feb. 22:3, 1881.

NOTICES OF MEETINGS.

At the last meeting of St. Joseph County
Grange we had a very interesting time. \Ve
are having such lively and interesting meet-
ings Iliat we now talk of making them two-
day meetings instead of one session. The
meeting of the County Grange at Colon,‘in
March, had the desired effect: they reorgan-
ized and are full of life. VVe propose to
hold the next meeting of the Countv
Grange at Constantine the first Thursday
in May. \Ve propose to make it so interest-
ing for the Patrons that Constantine Grange
will never say “die.” A cordial invitation
hereby is extended to all Patrons and their
wives and daughters, and to every one in-
tcrested in the success of the farmer. The
meeting will be addressed by Brother Whit-
ney, or some of the other Lecturers.

CHAS. W. SiIEI.no.v. Sec’y.

The Clinton County Pomona Grange will
meet with the Eagle Grange at 10 o’clock,
A. M., on VV(-dncsday, the 11th of May.
Essays will be read by Sisters Elizabeth M.
Vorhces, Florence Kent, Harriet E. Conn,
and Brother Lyman Townsend. The sub-
ject of incorporating the Grange will be dis-
cussed and acted upon at this meeting. All
members of the Order are cordially invited
to attend. FRANK Conn, Sec’y.

Bro. Cobb.-——'l‘he next meeting of Cass
County Pomona Grange, No. 20, will be
held at Cassopolis, in Goodwin's hall, on
\Vednesday,.lune 8, 1881. All fourth de-
gree members are cordially invited to attend.
The meeting to commence at 10 o’clock A.,
M. L. J. RITTEB.

Sec’y pro tem.

Br0J. T. Cobb: —Will you please give
notice in the next issue of the VISITOR
that the next regular meeting of Calhoun
County Pomona Grange will be held at
Marshall, Calhoun county, May 12, 1881, at
10 o'clock, A. III. MRS. PERRY MAYO.

The next regular meeting of VanBuren
County Grange will be held at Decatur,
May 1:}, 1881. Entire session closed. All
fourth degree Patrons are cordially invited.
A good time ex pccted. C. B. CHARLES.

Bangor, April 19, 1881.

The next meeting of Newaygo County
Pomona Grange will be held at Ashland
Grange hall, commencing on Tuesday, May
31, at 1 o’clock 1’..VI. All fourth degree mem-
bers invited. A. TERWILLIGER, Sec.

Sheep-shearing festival at Hurt May 24.

Resolutions of Respect.

At a regular meeting of Capitol Grange, No. 540,

held in their hall April 23, 1881. a committee was '

appointed to draft resolutions expressing the sympa.
thy of the Grange with the family of the late Row-
LAND E. Tnownnxnon. The following is their report :

WHEREAS, It has become our painful duty to
mourn the loss of our worthy and much-esteemed
brother, who departed tl; is life April 20, 1881, at his
home in Birmingham; therefore

Resolved, That in the death of Brother Trowbridge
our Order has met with an irreparable loss, and the
community misses a good citizen.

Resolved, That we tender to his bereaved compan-
ion our condolence. and to his much afflicted chil-
dren, in the loss of a kind and indulgent parent, our
sincere and heartfelt sympathy, assuring them that
their names are not only inscribed upon the roll with
their many friends, but upon the tablets of our
hearts.

When we look upon the past history of Capitol
Grange, we remember with no little pride the name
of Rowland E. Trowbridge, who was with us in every
good word and work-—one of the foremost in its
organization, a charter member and also our first
Master. But it has pleased an All-Wise Creator to
call him from us to a brighter and better we;-1d_ In
parting with our brother, we realize not only the logs
of a friend, but that of a companion; one who was
ever ready to stand up for the right, the good and
the true, by deed as well as word.

When BI-other Trowbridge left us, nearly three

cars ago, for larger fields of usefulness, he not only
left vacant the Master’s chair of Ingham County
Pomona Grange. but a place in the hearts of the
membership of this Grange, that will alwavs be kept
green with many bright memories. Althoiigh called
to one of the highest positions in the gift of the 113-
tion, he could always meet a brother. in any walk of
life, with that earnest shake of the hand and cordial
greeting that betokens a warm heart and the truest
manhood. I

Resolved, That our charter be draped in mourning
for ninety days, and that a copy of these resolutions
be spread upon the records of this Grange, 9, copy be
sent to the bereaved family, and also to the Gaxnon,
Vxsrroa for publication.

E. S. Tnoirrson,
C. Gooimos,

Mas. B. C. G
North Lansing, Apr. 25. c%(:::1?tE¢j,e.

* 
PREMIUM PAINT, WITHOUT OIL 0R LEAD

—Slake stone-lime with boiling water in A
tub or barrel, to keep in the steam- then pass
six quarts through a sieve; now tothis quan-
tity, add one quart coarse salt and one gal-
ion water; boil the mixture, and skim it
clear; to every five gallons of this skimmed
mixture add one pound alum, half pound
copper-as and, by slow degrees, three-qua;-t-
ers pound potash and four quarts sifted ashes
or line sand; add any coloring degi,-ed_ A
more durable paint is hard to find.

Seed Potatoes.

BURBANK SEEDLINGS. LEADER.
BEAUTY OF HEBRON. TRIUMPH.

81.00 per bushel, bags included. delivered at depot
here. JOSEPH MORRIS,
Mariette, Samlac county, Mich.


' be teacher and governess.

6

Hints to Housekeepers.

[An essay read before Grange No. 76, St.
Joseph County.] 3

Worthy Jllaster and Patrons .-—“ Hints to
Housekeepers ” is the topic given me at our
last meeting by our VVorthy Lecturer.

The words housekeeping and house-work
are identical and of the family of compound
words to be found in the English language.
Housekeeping expresses home duties and
cares in very many forms. Every depart-
ment of housekeeping is included in its
definition. A person skilled in housekeep-
ing is capable of making home cheerful and
happy. '

As wealth increases refinement progresses,
and the duties and cares of the housekeeper
multiply very largely.

In the last fifty years the change in the
manner of doing housework has been very
great, indeed more so than most of us real-
ize. Then one room sufficed for sitting-
room, dining~room, kitchen, and frequent-
ly sleeping-room for the whole family. All
preparation for the family cooking was done
on the one and only table. The pantry was
alittle room as far from the fire as it was
possible to get it, and was used to store
everything it. that was used or needed in
doing the cooking for the family. One set
of plates was all that was needed for all vari-
eties of food prepared for the meal. Plain,
wholesome, coarse food was suflicient.
Strong homespun cloth was everyday cloth-
ing for the whole household. Now look at
the contrast. Parlor, sitting-room, dining-
room and kitchen are all to be kept clean
and in order, as all are in use every day.
Sweeping and dusting are daily to be done,
yes,hourlyif children are about. Dishwash-
ing is a never ending necessity. No less
than three sets of dishes will now answer
for a family dinner, and frequently more is
required. Then the cooking, such on end-
less variety of dishes, breads. pies, cakes,
custards, puddings, and many other things
too numerous to mention, and the most of
them to tempt the appetite. It requires a
busy head and nimble hands and feet to do
the work in most of our homes at the pres-
ent time. Then, the making and the mend-
ing, the darning and the patching, are ac-
complishments which all belonged to house-
keeping.

A thorough,practical knowledge of house-

work requires more brains than it does to
become a lawyer or a physician. To run
the complicated machinery of a household
so as not to have any jar or friction, is a sci-_
ence in itself. Perhaps there was never a
time when success in housekeeping de-
manded heartier or more earnest labor than
at the present time. Enthusiasm is want-
ing in every one who would excel in this
one essential point in our homes. Ability,
learning, accomplishments, and opportuni-
ty are all well enough. But they do not of
themselves insure success in housekeeping.
Many do not succeed in becoming econom-
ical and successful housekeepers, because
they do not put their heart into their work.
It isasomething which does not come by
nature ; it is to be learned ; it requires daily
attention, often patient drudgery and tired
limbs.

And now, sisters, one thing we do want,
and that is to be appreciated for what we
do. Don’t laugh. I mean just what I say.
Some men wonder that their wives need
ever get tired except on washing-day. They
think it strange that their homes should
ever get out of order, as there is nothing to
do but make a few beds and wash the dishes.
VVhy, don’t they know that to be a good
housekeeper, a woman must be master of
nine different trades, and though not in
constant use of each, she must be ready
to prepare with perfect precision whatever
presents itself, whether it is first, second-
ly, thirdly or ninthly. First, she must be
a good cook, for, don’t you know the way to
a man’s heart is through his stomach?
VVell,it is. A laundress is an indispensable
person in a home, for “ Cleanlilless is next
to godliness.” A seamstress of course, she
must be, plain sewing must be done, besides
her own. The children’s finery must re-
ceive due attention, also shirts for her bet-
ter half, and then when we have done the
best we could, do we not dread to hear
them say “Nota bit of afit to it.” It_,is
either too wide or too narrow, too long or too
short, collar don’t fit, waistband too large or
too small‘, in fact no fit at all. Just here,
sister Patrons, let me give you a hint.
Keep your temper, smile your sweetest
and say “ I am very sorry, I'll fix it
right.” In the mean time console yourself
that there is always a calm after a storm.
There are also many other things we do,
even to whitewashing the walls, blacking
the stove and carrying out the ash pail. A
doctor too, we are expected to be. We
must understand symptoms and bring
about a sure cure for anything less than a
broken neck. The wife and mother must
Also a knitting
machine, and at night when head and
hands are tired with the ceaseless doing of
little things we would fain rest, we must
knit, knit, knit, while he who should, nev-
er even notices her tired and wearied look,
but sits and silently reads and fills the spit-

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MAY lsr, 1881.

toon, to clean which adds to her morning's
work.

Such things, like straws in the wind, show
that this, sister Patrons, is nearly our whole
existence. Let me give you this hint. I
have always made a mistake in planning
how much I could accomplish in the long
spring and summer days. I am now
contemplating how little I can get along
with in the months to come. I propose to
take as much rest and that as often as I can
without neglecting my family too much,
even if I neglect to have the water pail fill-
ed when the men come in to meals, tired
though they may be.

But seriously, we farmers’ wives do not
want to be free from labor or care. \Ve do
not want white hands, and expensive attire,
with servants to do our work, or, at least,
leave it undone. You know Josiah Allen’s
wife said to Betsie Bobbit, “ Meet your bus
band with a smile each evening for a week,
the next with a good warm supper, and see
which he likes best.” That stomach busi-
ness again, you see.

But, sisters, with all our cares, there is
this one thing we are ever to remember that
“ No man ever loved a woman for being his
slave. As man expects all his little wants
supplied, so he wants his wife, his equal to
walk beside him as his Creator intended.”
Though we often feel that our tasks are
more than we well perform, that our phys-
ical frame is overtaxed, let us keep our spir-
its bright by knowing that “The brightest
scarf that heaven makes is thrown over the
shoulders of the storm.”

Perhaps our W. L. thinks that I am
not confined to the text. If he expected me
to tell you how to bake and brew, to cook
and sew, why, he is mistaken this time.
But in conclusion, I will give you a few
more hints. Sisters. we need the wisdom of
Solomon and the patience ofJob, sometimes,
to perform all that is required of us in our
everyday life on the farm. There is this
one thing to learn if we hope to be pronoun-
ced asuccess in housekeeping. VVe should so
understand our business as to utilize our
daily labor, not crowd three day’s work, into
one. We should understand how much we
can endure, and do no more. This isa great
secret in doing housework, to undertake no
more than we can perform. Housework is
one of the most requisite branches of home
education, and attention is being roused to
the fact that ill-humor, fault-finding and
grumbling flourish largely when the stom-
ach is empty, and are quite cured by a full
meal of wholesome food.

The first duty of housekeepers is to keep
healthy and good natured. Consider then
your food and clothing. Consider your
strength, and take your rest before it is all
gone. See well to your mind, do not stint
it. Read books and papers, keep posted on
what is going on in the world. Remember
the social feature of your life. Do not neg-
lect it. Interest yourselves in something
outside of your own homes. Join the
Grange or the Good Templars, a sewing cir-
cle, or anything to take you away from
home occasionally among your friends and
neighbors. If you cannot leave home, write
an essay and send it to the Grange; if you
have never tried it you will be surprised at
the result in either case. Reach beyond
your home and become acquainted with oth-
er people and in that way get many good
hints in housekeeping. You say you have
no time for these things. VVell, what are
you doing with all your time? Keeping
your house? And with all your care it is
not kept as well as you would like.

Now I envy the woman with a well-kept
and well-furnished house. She stands as
high in my estimation as the writer of
books, the lecturer, or the artist. Yet I
doubt if it is wise for any woman to give
her entire time, thought, strength and
ability to housekeeping.

 

Woman’s Mission.

To woman first the tempter came, Mad-
dened with rage,hurling back defiance to the
God of heaven because of his eternal ban-
ishment, and writhing still under that
almighty power which had driven him
with all his host of rebel angels to a place of
torment,he beheld our first parents in a pri-
meval state, and hoping to regain some of
the power lost he came to them, but first of
all to Eve, and deceived the mother of man-
kind.

Crafty then, as in all things since, he saw
that in this lay all his hopes of raising an-
other empire in direct antagonism to God’s
throne, and full well he did his work, erect-
ing there a universe of death.

Through his success came all the sorrows
and miseries of future ages. But amid all
this desolation there was still a ray of hope.
To Eve the promise was given, “ Thy seed
shall bruise the serpent’s head.” In full
ness of time came the “ Day-spring from on
High,” ushering in that glorious morn
which kings and prophets long desired to
see, but died without the sight.

Woman, formed from man, proved recre-
ant to her trust, butofthe humble maiden of
Nazareth was born the Man, Christ Jesus,
“ The only begotten of the Father, full of
grace and truth,” and was not woman’s
mission then indeed exalted? True, woman
was first to sin, but how was her reproach
rolled away when “God’s express image
and the brightness of His person became
flesh and dwelt among us.” To woman

was given the honor of becoming the moth-
er of the Son of God in his human nature.

Angels ushered in the birth of our Savior
singing "Glory to God in the highest, on
earth peace, good will to men,” and well
might they sing in exultant strains, catch-
ing up the glad refrain when at creation’.-r
morn the morning stars sang together and
the sons of God shouted for joy, and carry-
ing it still to the ascension of our Lord
when heaven received back its best gift to
man.

By the loving ministration of woman's
heart and hand glimpses of Eden may still
he brought back to us. The memory and
influence of a mother's love, and a mother's
care and a mother's prayers form stepping-
stones in the great highway of life, over
which many have walked and triumphantly
came down to the river of death and up to
the great white throne above.

The roaring Niagara carries death and de-
struction in its tide; while thousands of
gently flowing rills, with their merry trick-
ling sound, ever carrying freshness and
beauty in their course, flow steadily on to
the great rivers, evenu-ally forming the vast
ocean over which the commerce of the
world may pass,—-so with a mother's influ-
ence for good, weaving in and out through
the child’s affections, and forming a vast
ocean of love, reaching even to Euranuel's
land, and to-day, here and there,allthrougb
our land, patient, christian mothers are
training immortal minds for the great but
tie of life, and for an appreciation of the
beauty that is to be revealed in the great
hereafter.

To women, more than all others, is given
the custody of the child, the priceless soul,
clad in human flesl1,.yet bearing on its brow
the imprint of its Maker, and woman’s
mission can never be so exalted as when
fulfilling this high and holy trust.

The mother has it in her power to create
a kingdom, where she herself shall sit as
queen, and love shall be the royal sceptre.
This kingdom is a happy home, where oft
she shall gather all her willing subjects, a
place more sacred than all else beside, where
nothing harsh or unkind should ever en-
ter, and from which should radiate the light
of love and truth.

“ Make home a hive, where all beautiful feelings

Cluster like bees, and their honeydew bring;

Make it a temple of holy revelings

And Love, its bright angel with shadowing wings;

Then shall it ever be, when afar on life's hillows,

Wherever your tempest-tossed children are flung,

They will long for the shades of the home weeping
willow,

And for the sweet song which their mother had
sung.”

MRS. Vs’. K. Si-IXTON.
Howell, Mich.

 

Do Husbands Support Wives’!

VVe are not discussing this subject for the
sake of throwing out dogmatic assertions,
but to honestly arrive at just conclusions,
and if wives are generally supported we
want to know it; if they earn their living,
we want that should be understood also.

\Vhat is more humiliating to an indu.~t-tri-
ous self-reliant women than the idea that
she is dependent upon her husband? It is
not simply a question of individual interest,
nor of sex, that unjust laws are made, pur-
porting to be for her interest, when they
tend directly against her own and likewise
family interests, because our law-makers be-
lieve that woman is dependant and disquali-
fied to earn her living or to protect herself.
Neither is she qualified to manage property
interests or to act as guardian for her own
offspring. All of these laws grew out of a
false idea of woman’s dependence upon her
husband. '

\Ve call this an oppression, and while
men in Granges, Congress, and Legislatures
are waging a warfare against monopolies,
why should not woman, as well, raise the
cry of monopoly, for here is certainly a mo-
nopoly of women’s earnings ir1 the house-
hold. This is why we want women forlegis-
lators, women in Congress. women in law,
and women at the polls. Woman, the great
enigma, must be solved, and she herself
must unravel the mystery.

tis an astounding fact that after the
thousands of years that men and women
have associated together in the closest rela-
tionship she is still a riddle. Is not this
fact alone sufiicient reason why women
should represent themselves in making laws,
for their own protection ?

To “Victorine” we would say, ask the
thousands of farmers’ wives if they do not
think that they earn their own living.
Ask the millions of mothers in our land if
they are not bread-earners and protectors
of their families as well.

VVe are not one of those who believe that
husbands ought to support wives, because
both sexes have their part to perform, and
when either party shirk their duty it pre-
supposes the fact that the other must perform
double duty, and when the husband fails on
his part, the wife is often obliged to triple
her exertions because she does not receive
equal compensation for labor. Is that be-
ing supported ? In Massachusetts there are
62,000 more females than males. These are
expected to be self supporting; and there
are also 40,000 drunkards, who probably
have to be supported by wives, and here we
see the effect of the present system of wom-
an’s labor, or the difference of the labor of
the two sexes. '

Victorine says man is the noblest work
of God. This is an assumption of their own

which has not been altogether proven. We
are not a sex worshiper, hence we do not
endorse the sentiment. One of our most
popular lecturers, in speaking of the
creation of man said : “ God caused a deep
sleep to fall upon Adam and took from his
side a rib, out of which he made woman,
and,” he continued, "I think it was the
most wonderful work God ever performed,
to make woman out of such material.”

Nevertheless we do respect the man who
is willing to accord equal rights to women.

Now, about that washing. \Vas it the
wife's washing exclusively, or were the
husband's clothes included 1’ \Ve presume
she is happier in a good home than she was
without one, and the husband also, for you
know it takes a husband and wife to make
a home in the best sense of the word.

\Ve once heard a man say to his wife, "I
furnish you wood to burn.” "Yes,” said
she, “ to cook your own food and warm
your own body, and you get my labor for
nothing.” Mrs. Myers says her thoughts
take a wide range. Well it isjust such minds
that we love to contemplate, and like to
hear from them frequently, for the broader
our views oflife and its duties are, the less
our minds are occupied with petty, local
gossip, and if our thoughts should occasion-
ally turn to politics, we may perchance hit
upon, and develop some ideas that may
benefit some one. Jrjsracra.

Help in the House.

As the gage was thrown down in the Ag-
ricultural department of the Vrsrroa for
March 15th upon the subject of help in the
house, I beg leave to say a few words upon
the same. It is a subject that has engaged
the attention of housekeepers more than all
others since housekeeping began, and like
the weather, is a topic that is always new
when nothing more interestingcan be found
to converse upon, and with many it is a
never failing theme.

There are at least two sides to all questions,
and this is no exception to the rule. In the
first place the mistress must not expect to
hire angels, neither must the maid expect
perfection. \Ve are all human. “ To err is
human,” still there is a great lack of
competency in the help we can obtain. I
do not think it is wholly due to the idea that
they are not well used, for there are few
farmers‘ families,‘ at least, where they are
not treated as one of the family; but they
do not take an interest in their work, or
have any pride as to how it is done, if the
time only goes on.

That there are exceptions to this rule I
am well aware, for I, more than a score of
years, had one of the exceptions in my
family, but how many housekeepers can
say the same? The idea seems to prevail
that it is degrading to do housework, but
I am too dull ofcomprehension to see why
there is any more degradation in being a
first-class cook,than in being a fifth rate
school teacher. “Act well your part, there
all the honor ll€S ” is certainly as applicable
to the kitchen work as to any other calling
in life. Skilled labor will always command
good wages, and to my mind there is no
way in which money can be spent and
bringa corresponding amount of comfort
to the whole household as in employing
competent help; but where shall we find
it? That isaquestion I will leave others
to answer. Some one may say, “bring up
your own daughters to work.” Every true
mother will do that, but what if she has
none, then what shall she do?

Happy the woman who is never obliged
to hire help, and who at thesame time never
feels that she is wearing herself out, or leav-
ing undone things that ought to be perform-
ed.

I notice the idea of establishing “ schools
of training ” is being agitated. It seems to
me there are thousands ofgood housekeepers
who would gladly establish schools of train-
ing if they could find one intelligent, will-
ing pupil who is anxious to learn all kinds
of work, and would at the same time fur-
nish them a comfortable home, and pay
them for the privilege of teaching them.

CHLOE.

 

The Home.

[An essay read to Portland Grange, No.
174, by Mrs. E. Rozell.]

Home and its surroundings should -claim
the attention of every Patron and farm-
er in this broad land. The home is not
only the place where we go to eat and sleep
and because we have no other place to
go to, but a place where, in every sense of
the word we should delight to dwell, and
where the children will be contented and
happy. Home should be made as attractive
and pleasant as possible. To make happy
homes does not require a large amount of
labor or expense. It is in the reach of near-
ly all to have pleasant and happy homes
with but little labor. We can plant trees
and flowers and arrange them with taste
and order, that our homes may be pleasant
and beautiful be they ever so humble.
Home is a sweet word, but to make a sweet
home all must act in concert to give to it
both an external and an internal beauty.
Home, with all that is dearest in the sacred
name, is the peaceful and cherished retreat,
within whose sanctuary bloom the flowers
of happiness and contentment that makes
itto the intelligent dweller a consecrated

temple. Home is the first school of child-
hood. Here they should be early taught
the first great principles that constitue a no-
ble man and womanhood—truth, virtue,
and integrity. Any one imbued with these
will not fail to labor to make a pleasant and
beautiful home where love, happiness, and
contentment reign supreme, whether that
home be a log cabin or stately edifice.
Home should be made as pleasant and agree-
able as possible, that the children will be in
no hurry to leave it, and when they do go
out from their childhoodls home for homes
of their own, no matter how far they may
wander from that sacred spot sweet memo-
ries will cluster around the dear old home.

Now let us all, as brothers and sisters,
strive as we meet here in our Grange home
from week to week to make our meetings
both pleasant and profitable. Here we may
exchange thoughts on matters that most in-
terest the farmer, and kindly greet our
brothers and sisters. Let us all try to live
in our Grange home as members of one
family, each one trying to do his or her
duty as best we can. Let us set a strict
watch over our words and actions that we
may not do or say anything that will offend
a brother or sister, and may envy orjealousy
never enter our peaceful enclosure.

Female Suffrage.

There is much said and written in these
days of progress, respecting an extension of
privileges, and the grant of new rights to
our sex. The true nobility of women is to
keep her sphere, and adorn it. But will it
detract from her real womanliness, her
innate delicacy, or would her prerogatives
as a woman he imperiled by her having a
right of suffrage in matters which relate to
temperance and education 1’

At the present time almost the entire
control and education of children and
homes are delegated to women, and could
any danger or loss accrue to the interests of
education by extending to her the right of
suffrage, and of making her eligible to any
oflice under the law? She should not, by
curiosity or glowing words, barter away her
Eden by seeking to share the fame of the
ruler and the blood-shedder, or mingle in
warfare that may rack our Republic, yet she
should be permitted to raise her voice to
put down the wrongs which oppress her.
VVomen today are taking an interest in
matters of public concern as never before.
Has her presence before the public as an
active participantin the reformatory, ben-
evolent, and educational interests of the
hour rendered her less lovely, less pure and
womanly, less the companion and help-meet
of man? No; rather is not the reverse
true '3 Has not the atmosphere been purified
by her presence, instead of sullying her own
purity; has she not exalted the character
and dignity of the other sex? Is it not
a woman’s duty to do what is right, and try
to do all that she can to see that justice is
given to all, as well as a man’s duty? If a
woman finds that she can use her influence
towards putting a good man in otlice, in op-
position to one whom she knows to be bad,
and would withhold from the people their
rights and just dues, is it not her duty to
her country and humanity to use that
influence?

In former years when a man’s wife was
considered little better than a dog, and a little
dearer than his horse, a woman might take
the back seat, and submit to laws which
were in every way an injustice to her.
Thank God, we are living in an age of
progress, and as civilization advances, we
shall see woman gradually lifted up to be:
proper place as mau’s equal. The ballot is
not the end to which we wish to attain,
but simply as a means of bettering woman’;-1
condition.

Some may wish to know what benefit
would be derived by woman suffrage. I
will state a few of them——-peace, temperan ce,
political reform, a more economical so 116 of
State and National expenditures, a higher
standard of religion and morals. I cannot
go to the extreme that some do on this
question. I believe that it would be a great
benefit to many women; that others, the
majority perhaps, it would not affect at all ;
and to those who would eternally strive for an
office for which they are not fitted, it would
prove a positive curse, just as it is to the
man who sacrifices everything in his insane
efforts to obtain office.

But whether beneficial or not, simple
justice shows that women should have their
right, and those who sneeringly say that
woman’s place is at home,—do not know
enough to vote, are not wortharguirig with.
Their style of reasoning shows the inability
of their minds to comprehend a subject
which certainly has right on its side.

VVomen, as a class are ordinarily intelli-
gent, for instance, such women as Caroline
Herschel, Grace Greenwood, Marion Har-
land, Marion J. Evans, and many more
that I might mention,——do you think they
are man’s inferior?

I claim that man and woman are created
equal, “That they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable rights;
that among them are life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness; that to secure these
rights governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed.” Women are gov-
erned bv these powers, do they have their
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‘ all these debasing and demoralizing powers,

  

MAY lsr, 1881.

THE

season we

are given the ballot the greatest curse of this
oountry—intemperance,——will cease to exist,
that the cursed license law will be repealed
and prohibition substituted in its place.
Thousands of women whose pride has been
humbled to the very dust by the folly of
those who are as dear to her as life itself
would raise their voices and forbid its sale
and stop its manutacture. Exclusive male
legislation has proved itself incompetent to
cope with this destructive power. If women
are denieda voice on this question, is it not
an unwarrantable usurpation of power, since
she is the sufferer and her freedom must still
be sacrificed to man's liberty ‘i’ You may say
that the husband represents the wife at the
polls. How can this be when he votes for a
license which brings to her poverty, disgrace
and death. Besides we have not all hus-
bands to represent us, and a thousand times
better, girls. is maidenhood, than wifehood
fullof wretchedness.

\Vomun is employed in almost every sta-
tion in life where intelligence and goodjudg-

merit are required, and it has been proven in

history that she is capable of governing wise-
ly, and hence can cast her ballot with equal
wisdom. A woman who owns property has
to pay taxes, and is amenable to the law, just
the same as a man is, and yet has no voice in
the election of those who make and execute
those laws. She has road tax to pay just the
same as her male neighbors. Does she
shoulder her shovel and go out and put in a
full day’s work on the road, as some of
our opponents havesuggested? No. but with
the same right she simply hires her taxes
worked out, just as many men do. Men also
send substitutes to thearmy in times of war
instead of going themselves, but they vote
just the same. Whatshould prevent women
doing likewise? Just because the women
wish to have the same rights and privileges
as men, and stand on equal grounds with the
lords of creation, we are told that we are
seeking notoriety. VVell, if going to Con-
gress, voting for the rights and protection of
our country is notoriety, then that is just
what we want. If voting againstand labor-
ing with all the earnestness of our natures to
drive the cause of intemperance from our
land is notoriety, then we hope and pray
that the day will come when we can be noto-
rious.

W'hy do women not receive the same wa-
ges as men for the same labor performed?
Why do women do all the drudgery about the
house, as is too often the case ‘? VVhy should
the Creatordesign her for a higher and no-
bler work of titting and qualifying herself
as a mother for training the young ?

I will say that the right to vote is God-
given, that He has implanted within us a
spirit of self-defense, and given us the
ability to discern right from wrong. I
think the question of allowing either a man
or a woman a vote should not be decided by
their belonging to a certain sex, but there
should be certain qualifications which
every voter should be required to possess,
before enjoying that privilege. VVe have
in the United States thousands of women
who are owners of property, who pay taxes
annually for the support of the government,
while they do not have a voice in the elec-
tion of the men who make the laws and
levy the taxes which they are called upon
to help pay. We have also many who are
not property-holders occupying positions of
trust and honor. We find them teaching
in our public schools and colleges, we find
them taking the lead in suppressing that
monster vice, intemperance -- which in
many instances becomes an important issue
in the campaign. They have been careful
readers and know whereof they speak.

On the other hand, we have many more
voters who do not possess even a primary

education, many of them cannot read the
names on the tickets they vote, and many
would sell their vote for a glass of whisky.

In order to vote intelligently, ’tis very
important that we know something of the
history of the party that we vote with, that
we understand, to some extent, at least, the

principles embodied in the platform upon
which that party stands, instead of voting
through our eyes and ears, as too many do.

You speak of the polluting influences that
would surround your wives and sisters at
the polls, and for that reason you seem to

object to their going there. Now, this may
be sufficient reason for some, but it hardly
satisties me, for I am too well aware of the
fact that the same men whose foul, tainted
breath and obscene language pollutes the
very atmosphere, congregate in other places
where they have better chance to exercise

and our gentle ones meet with them, and
not a voice in all the land is heard warning
us to keep away. My friend, if the condi-
tion is such at the polls as you describe it,
then I think it high time we found some
remedy. And what better remedy can we
find than the refining influence of good
women 2‘

The polls are not the only place where
women are brought in contact with roughs,
or coarse, uncouth men. Every day we are
disgusted with their filthy habits in other
places than at the polls. For instance, a
lady goes into a dry goods store to make a
purchase; ten to one the stove is surrounded
by loafers, who stare her out of countenance
and perhaps make disparaging remarks
about her after her exit.

And if it be so degrading to go to the

could have a ballot box of their own, set
apart from the crowd of roughs with which
you vote.

Ah, gentlemen, if you wish us to hold fast
to our morals. Christian graces, to all that
constitutes a true woman, prove your faith
by your works; and as we are and must be
law-abiding, protect us as such, and as citi-
zens of the United States should be. You
wish to marry women only who are superior
to you in all the higher questions. Think
you we care to marry beneath us—-bind our-
selves to you for life ?

Now, for the sake of the class that you
represent, don’t say that many want the
right ofsuffrage, and to fill high offices. who
have not the ability or natural qualificatioris
to fill them, when in one of the prominent
States, in the late election, one of the town
inspectors of election confezs.-‘ell to never
having real the Constitutions, State or
National.

Mire. Uxsi7i.A VA.‘«’AI{l-ZN.

The Woman's Right to the Pocket-Book.

Orleans Grange, No. 325, December 16,
1880: Resolved, that the wife has just as
much right to the pocket-book as the bus-
band.]

Worthy Master, Brolhers and Sisters :——As
I have been chosen to argue this momen-
tons question in behalf of the rights of
the wife, I will endeavor to statea few of
the reasons therefor.

Now one of our inalienable rights is the
pursuit of happiness, and if the husband's
exclusive control to the pocket book causes
us unhappiness, we have a right to seek a
change in that respect.

In the first place, the man at the marriage
altar says, “Willi my goods I thee endow."
He may have much or little, as the case
may be. If he endows her with his worldly
possessions, has she not a right to them?
But in ninety—nine cases out of every bun-
dred, his possessions are very small, and
they start life about on an equal footing,
to say nothing about the endowment.

For a little, she does not see or know that
they are not equal partners, as far as the
pocket-book is concerned. They buy a
farm or perhaps a village home, each one
working with all their might, striving to
earn and save till the home is paid for, and
all this time the wife has been slowly learn-
ing the bitter fact that as all their joint
earnings have gone into the husband’s
pocket-book, if she wants a few dollars she
must ask for it. if he happens to be good
natured, she gets it without other comment
than " what are you going to buy 2”’ but if
he is cross, perhaps she is flatly refused, or
it is given with the grumbling remark, that
“times are hard, and women must not
expect to have everything they can think
of.” She takes the money with an aching
heart and thinks it will be a long time be-
fore she will ask again, but by and by, her
needs are greater, and she must have cloth-
ing for herself and children, and with a
dread feeling that she must be a beggar to
get what is here by right, she asks again.
I have known women to ask and even beg
to be allowed a small amount called pin
money, that they might spend as they
pleased without question, well knowing
that in their circumstances it could well be
afforded, and only he laughed at for their
pains. Many women get so tired and sensi-
tive about asking and begging that they
will deny themselves in every respect they
can rather than submit to it.

They certainly have a right to it, for are
they not as industrious, as economical, and
as prudent in their outlays as men '1’ and
their earnings are all in the lion!-ieiiold, aye,
and in the husband’s pocket book too.

If they were to work out by the w-5-ek,
few of them would work harder, fare hard-
er, or dress poorer, but if one shmild say,
“ I do your work, care for the family, and
save all I can for the general fund, now
pay me as much as a hired girl receives,that
1 may not feel that every cent I spend
belongs to some one else," she is laughed to
scorn or scolded for her impudence, and
left in the same beggardly state as before. I
do not intend to accuse men of wanton
cruelty in this matter, but most of them, if
remonstrated with on this subject, will say,
"If it is not worth asking for, it is not
worth having," but if brought right down
where they cannot dodge, they will admit
that it is no more than just, yet they can-
not seem to get rid of the idea that it is
their pocket-book not ours, and that we are
not partners with equal rights to its con-
tents.

I once heard a lady make some remark
about buying her husband a Christmas
present, when a gentleman present said
with a sneer, “How nice it is to receive,
presents and pay for them yourself,” and‘
that illustrates the idea exactly. It is their
money we spend, not ours. And what an
idea, after forty or fifty years of service, his
wife did not have money enough of her
own to buy her husband a Christmas gift!
Our lives of labor, qur toils and cares and
self-denials are as naught if it touches their
pocket book, and I claim it is not right.
Vile have a right to as much of the income
as they have if we bear our portion of life’s
burdens, and we should have the same
privilege of spending it that they have
theirs without being made to feel like

ballot box with your wives and sisters, they

[The following question was before the,

Eros.

Then, too, in many cases I claim that the
wife has far the best right to the pocket-
book, for it is her earnings that supply it,
and provide mostly for the family, while
what little the husband earns goes for whisky
and tobacco. If awotnan wants a bright
ribbon or a feather for her hat she is made
to feel her dependence, but what man ever
stops to question his right to the money
when he buys his cigars and glass of beer?

I once heard a man say he would not dare
leave his pocket-book where his wife could
get it, or she would spend all his money. I
don’t believe it. If she did not know his
plans and outlays and incomes, whose fault
is it if she did not know the need of saving‘?
And if she was treated as a wife, and not as
a seivant, she would not spend a cent that
was put by for Li special purpose any sooner
than he would.

I would not be unjust, but only tell the
1; truth plainly, for I believe many men love
their V\’lW:.~=, and if they knew just how they
felt on this subject, they would change their
course, and not make them beggars instead
of co-equal partners on life's journey.

own experience, and describing my own
bitter lot, but most of you know Liiat my
husband is a “'0l1lu1l"8 riglils man, and a
few of you know that ihave my own
pocket~book, and l will tell you a secret. It
is not empty as olten as his, for that is
where we deposit «or money for especial
purposes.

No. as civilization progi'e.'-see, woman's
condition improves, and most men only
need to be enlightened to deal more justly
with their wives. If any of you think I do
not tell the truth, just ask your wives.

ELSIE LAMI$El{'l"S0.‘«'.

Gossip.

Although this is a lioniely sul=_ject, there
is much that can be said regarding it. Spill-
ning street yarn has been the fasliion since
the small date of years began, and like some
other fashion.-i,it has grown more hideous.Wc
all come below perfection, and sometimes
err in word or deed. There is a certain class
in every hamlet who enjoy life in no better
way than in scattering the seeds of calumny
broadcast, catching some saying, hasting
away to some place of gathering to relate it,
and on and on it goes, until it is extended
into a lengthy line, with some black marks
and several exclamation points. This may
be thougntlessly done by soms,while others
use it as a weapon whereby to avenge some
fancied injury. This seems to be a trait be-
longing to woman more than man. W0-
man’s tongue has always been proverbial
for its liastiness and alacrity. Even in
Eden’s lovely land, man was bcguiled to
partake of the forbidden fruit by woman.
And woman, pure and lovely as she is,
must certainly acknowledge this error as a
part of her poor human nature. Let it be
as it may, it is an ugly trait which should
be banished from society, for “ lie who
steals my purse, steals trash; but he who
robs me of my good name, takes from me
that which does not enrich him and makes
me poor indeed."

There is no act toward our fellow-man
that pains a sensitive person more than the
foul tattle that some wealmninded people
let fall from their lips; Most person.-1 wish
to be well thought of, and it is very unpleas-
ant even if all such accusations are false, for
there are always a ready few to set the ball
rolling, and there is certainly nothing under
Heaven’s blue vault that sweeps down upon
mankind like these hard sayings. There is
an old saying that “ the best apples are
found where most clubs lie under the tree,”
and the gold must be separated from the
dross by the scorching test of tire, yet with
these redemptlons, people do not wish to be
annoyed by such accusations. To be tliougl:t
well of is one of the highest aims of man,
and if every person would pause long
enough to consider the saying that “ malice
toward none and charity to all,” is one of
the best safeguards, me-thinks that many
loose tongues would put on the golden bri-
dle.

There is a class of gatherings that are
hot-beds for these poisonous weeds to vege-
tate in. A company of young ladies and
gentlemen gather, perhaps, at a neighbor's
house for enjoyment in the silly plays of
the season,——too silly for young ladies and
gentlemen to engage in —— and on the sly,
comment upon the dowdy dress of one, or
upon some trifle which a false breath has
wafied to them. This certainly is un-Christ-
ian and rude. Civilization breeds better en-
tertainments, and should breed better‘ man-
ners. They should long ago have been
buried with the ancient lnL)('l(?.< of life. Then
with the stride of time cannot we leave be-
hind us the past and make for ourselves a
more pleasing and instructive future ‘I This
now is dawning upon us in the beautiful
organization of the Grange. Here we have
sensible and instructive pleasure, where no
one needs feel the fangs of gossip, but instead
feel as a band of brothers and sisters striv-
ing to so educate themselves up to a higher
order, that no back-biting can long live in
its pure atmosphere. I knew a lady in my
youth, who said to me one day as I was
talking at random of some person, “If you
know no good of a person, never speak ill of
them.” The delicate white flowers and blue
forget-me-nots are now blooming over that

beggars.

Perhaps some may think I am giving my ,

fellow-mortals and her pure spirit is praise-
ing God; but the lesson she taught me
remaineth still.

As thoughtlessness begets these foolish
habits more than any one thing, should it
not be our aim and determination to exert
every influence in favor of more mental and
moral training—-educating the young to that
standard of right and beauty that may aid
them to disdain the impure and frivolous
atmosphere that surrounds snap-and-catclr
’em bussing bees‘?

'l‘he-n, P.".t|‘OllS. let us endeavor to make
oiir_(}range so alluring that all fsrniers and
their families may be so well pleased with
the precepts it teaches, that they can in no
wise stay outside the gates, but come and be
one among us in our pleas-aiit home, and
thereby aid the world to grow into that per-
f€«.‘tll€.~‘S on earth, that as we knock at the
pearly gate-. for ad:iiis-einn. our password
may be of that order which tlie\Vorthy Mas-
ter and heaven may admit.

A Sisrrzn.

VI BR ATOR. HARROW.

Age 1:; tea
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Best Harrow made. Cuts every inch of ground,
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This powder has been in has for many years. It
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the Patrons of that State have bought over 100,000
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and in good condition. It helps to digest and assimi-
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value to them when inolting. It is sold at the lowest
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GEO. VV. HILL do 00, 80 Woonasmos Sr. Dn-
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I)i~'.'l’.-\RTI..'RE OF TRAINS FROM KALAMAZO0.

Tl.\1E-TABLE—-—MAY 9, 1880.
VVESTVVARD.

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PATRONS, TRY ME,
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and ratchet for regulating feed. The sieves are well
made of coppered and annealed wire cloth; other
parts of the most durable material. The Eureka is
the only mill in America that makes

Four complete Separations on two
Sieves at one operation.

It separates cockle, chess, mustard, redroot, dock,
or any other small seed from your wheat; making
one grade of seed wheat, taking the shrunk and
cracked wheat out and cleaning it for market at the
same time, besides putting the small foul seeds that
may be in the grain perfectly clean by itself, also the
cockle and chess by itself. The Eureka does all of
this in running the grain once through the mill. One
dollar in cash will be given for every cockle or chess
that can be found in the seed wheat after being once
run through the mill when properly adjusted. This
mill was awarded the highest medal at Philadelphia
in 1876, also at the last two State fairs of Michigan.

Manufactured by
HEN RY CORTRITE,
For terms to Patrons address Lansing, Mich,
T. J. SHOEMAKER,
Sec'y 637, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

PRICE LIST OF

HORSE NETS.

Nets made of 16—thread twine, full net, body,
neck and ear tips, by the dozen, each $1.10. Sixty
days time. Ten per cent. off for cash.

Body Nets, reaching to the hames, by the dozen,
each 75 cents.

Nets mans of 20—threaLl twine, a small advance
on above prices.

JOSEPH SHAW’.
Chm-iotte. Mich-
Lorders mider Seal of Grange promptly attended to.

FENNO 81. MANNING,

Wlllll El]MMlS3|UN MEllCHANlS»

117 Federal St., Boston.
Consignments Soliciled and Cash Advances Made.

BEES FOR SALE. _
CHOICE ITALIANS.

In Movable Comb Hives.

Write for Prices. 0. B. RANNEY.
Kalamazoo, Mich.

Plymouth Books

Pa.rt—rildg-e Cochins!

My Plymouth Rocks
are from Keefer’:-i noted
strain; iny Partridge
Cocliins are from
}—'iei'ce’s-i prize—win-
ning strain. \Veaned
Clii(9keu:"< for sale

- in early hummer.
; l<3gg-is in season.
Send for (‘ircular to

Wilde, Uneiieriille, llicli.

‘Del.

.

Fro

aprl5,6m

A. L. LAKEY & BIGELOW.
llilimiiii Paint and lining Wlllll,

Manufacturers of

llllllll PAINTS. ROOFING MATERIAL, &c.,

— Ann DEALERS IN —

All Kinds of Painters’ Goods,

AT WIIOLESALE AND RETAIL.
0

PLEASE CALL AND sen OUR STOCK AT
52 and 54 NORTH BURDICK STREET.

K.\l.A)l.-\Z00, Mics.

THE BUSINESS COLLEGE
AT KALAMAZ03, MICE.

IS THE BEST PLACE FOR
YO UNG MEN AND WOMEN

TO GET A THOROUIH
BUSINESS EDUCATION.

§’Send for College Record, giving full partic-
ulars.

Prenident.

THE 5 - TON

WAGON SCALES

ARE SOLD FOR. $60.

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.
Blnghampton. N. Y.
Send for Circulars and further particulars.

Paw Paw, Mich., May 18th, 1878.
Jonas or Bmcnauron:

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 reliable.

{Sis-mdl

Yours, Fraternally,
J. J. WOODM .
3 lnaflgyr

ALABASTINE.

A SUPERIOR SUBSTITUTE FOR KALSOMINE, IVALL PAPER. J30.

BETTER, CHEAPER, AND MORE EASILY APPLIED.

_ It is the only preparation based on the proper principles to constitute a. durable finish, and is
different from all other preparations applied with the brush. -
Every additional cost of ALABASTINE. applied from time to time, adds to the streiigth of the wall. as
they all cement together, forming one solid mass that will not scale from a hard surface, but becomes harder
with age, obviating the necessity of scraping and washing walls. This alone places ALAl3ASTI.\'E far ahead
of all other preparations for the purpose; while it is also very easily applied by any person, by following a
simple given rule. and yet especially adapted to the fresco painters’ use ; it is the cheapest finish known. as
it requires but one-half the number of pounds that it does of kalsouiine to cover the same surface; and
saves time and waste by being ready for use by adding hot water.

Fifty cents’ worth of Anasasrma will cover 50 square yards of average wall with two coats; and one
coat will produce better work than can be done with one coat of any other preparation, on the same sur-
face. Anssasrma is the best finish for all the following surfaces: A soiled "hard-finish." painted walls,
wood ceilings, over old wall paper. on brick, or on rough boards, rough plaster, «to. Vllctting Ai..uzAs1'INn

does not spot it. Manufactured only by the

ALABASTINE C(). ,
M. B. CHURCH, Manager. Ch-mid Rapids. Mic}:-
§'For"sale by nearly every Druggist and Paint Dealer in Michigan, and generally throughout the U. S.

HUSBANDS -0- -mm: WIVES 1
MOTHERS‘ OF DROOPING DAUGHTERS!

SHOULD KNOW OF
DR. R. PENGELLY’S “ WOMAN'S FRIEND," IMPROVED l
[t is a SOVEREIGN Rn:M1i:1)Y for

Those Complaints (they need no naming) pecnliarto VVOMEN. YOUNG or OLD. N01‘ A GUN E-
ALL. Claiming to annihilate Jaundice, Diabetes, Bright's Disease, Gravel, and everything else which
afilicts MEN EVEN MORE THAN WOMEN.

It works in ONE LINE and in that llne it excels. The tender, Nervous Girl, the anxious, , ectant
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 ('.!‘p€Tl'c'7l(J¢;'(f I’}zysi'cian, perfected during a
life-long practice, and its nine years of public record, in 30 different States, have proved it rightly named -—
A FRIEND INDEED TO WOMAN. The good words of those who use it are its best advertisement.
An 8-ounce ($1.00) bottle, or a 20»ounce (82.00) bottle sent on receipt of price, express prepaid, also

entirely

references and testimonials, on application to

‘R.
KALAMAZOO. MICH.

PENGELIJY 85 CO..
(FORMERLY or PLAINWELL.)

Sold by Drugqlsts generally and Lady Agents. S\vlfl. & Dodds, and Farrand, Wllllanrs

6:. (71)., Detroit. Vanschaack, Stevenson &. Co., Chicago.

Farmers and Patrons
of the “VISITOR,”

ARE you in need of a

WIND MILL ?

If so, read the following:

THE UNDERSIGNED
WIND MILL 00..

MANUFAC TURERS OF

WOLCOTT’S

- PATENT
E

§Eciinii— iiiiiiRiiiii‘iiiii[f

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 different States. We
have made many new and useful improvements from
year to year, until we now have as good a Mill as
can be found in the rnarket—we might, like others,
say the best, but we leave it to you to judge for your-
self. All we ask is that you give our Mill 3 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 55 llIAN’F’G 00.,

Albion, Mich.

GEORGE W. HILL,

Successor to GEO. W. HILL & CO.
Eoinmission Merchant,

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

What EVERY FAMILY 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 $2.55.
VEGETABLE, FLOWER and FIELD
SIEEIIJE.

Field Peas,
Hungarian,

Timothy,
Millet.

SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES.

Clover,

T. J. Snoauaxna, Secretary of Mt. Clement
Grange, is my travelling agent; give him your
orders when he calls.
apr.lsl.5.

UNION NURSERIES

ESTABTIS FIXED 185?‘!

TREES! U TREES!

FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL.

The proprietors of these Nurseries offer—togethcr
with their experience of 24 years in the business—‘
a. complete stock of Apples, Pears, Cherries,
Plums. Peaches. Quiiices. 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., V
KALAMAZOO, - - - - MICE.

TRANSPORTATION FREE !

READY MIXED 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 Point thor-
oughly ground and mixed by machinery, in appro-
priate colors. ready for immediate use upon the
opening of a package, is more economical, and
gives better satisfaction than Paints mixed by hand
in small quantities, and colored bya novice.

THE PATRONS’ PAINT womrs
MANUFACTURE
INGEB.SOLL’S READY MIXED PAINTS,

and sell them Excnosrvsnr 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 flberal than

ever. Send for our Book, with Sample Color
Cards and Brush Patterns.

"Every Man his own Painter" Mailed Free.

Address,
A. M. //l/GE/P8011.
PROPRIETOR.

New York City.
6 mo

A.VANDENBERG,

MANUFACTURER,
Wnonasana am) Rzran. Deanna IN

HARllESS,WHIPS, BLANKETS, TRUNKS, &ll.,

92 Monroe Street,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICII.

I take pleasure in presenting to your favorable con-
sideration my CASH PRICE LIST of Harness Work
—HAND MADE-—all of my own manufacture. and
also to return thanks for the liberal patronage 1 have
received from the difierent Granges throughout Mich-
igan. I shall do in the future as in the past—furnish
the best goods for the least money.

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

The same without Bi-eeching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 00

" “ with flat Lines, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 23 00

“ “ “ “ “ without breeching,. . 25 00
Double Light Buggy Harness, white trimmed,

from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..825 to 30 00

The same, Nickle Trimmed. from . . . . . .835 to 50 00

Single Buggy Harness, with round lines, white
trimmed. 13 00

Same with flat lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 00

Nickle Trimmed, . . . . . . .315, 816, 818, 820 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 Mosaoa Srasrxr, Guano Ru-ms.

HEADQUARTERS FOR LAND PLASTBR.

DAY & TAYLOR,

Grandvllle, Nlich.,

Are prepared to furnish LAND PLASTER, fresh
ground, at contract prices, made with the Executive
Committee of the State Grange.
A large stock on hand of pure, finely-ground
LAND PLASTER.
Send us your Orders direct.
jan1—ly ‘

162 South St.,

DAY «la TAYLOR

JERUSALEM or BRAZILIAN
VARTICHOKES.

WILL sell a few bushels of JERUSALEM OR
BRAZILIAN ARTICHOKES for 81.00 per
Bushel, delivered at depot. Vicksburg, Mich.
April 15th, 1881. D. '1‘. DELL.

GGS FOR HATCHIN G. From all the varieties
of poultry, Brahmas. Cochins, 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 settin at
81.00 per 13. Our Plymouth Rocks and Pekins av
never been beat. A few first-class fowls and Berk-
shire pigs to spare. Smith 63 Bro..
aprl5,2m Sromr Baoox, N. Y.

E. s. THo1viPs’oNi&llloo.,

SEENERAL AGENTS FOR CENTRAL MICHIGAN.

}IO¢I (INEIS
'llEINNVlAl AHOJ.
‘OVJSLLVS V NI HHOAA
S.I.I OCI OJ. CIEIINVHHVM

HF. Oll TWO l~l()RSES

EASIEST RUNNING MA-
CHINE IN THE l\lAl{l{E'l‘.

0

THE PERRY NEW YORK HAY T EDDBR.

' 303 WASHINGTON AVENUE,
LANSING, MICHIGAN.

IONIA. CLINTON. SEIAWASSEE. BARRY, EATON, INGHAM, LININGSTON, CALHOUN,
JACKSON AND WASHTENAW COUNTIES. May 1-1 yr.

EVERY FARMER IN THE COUNTRY SHOULD EXAMINE THE

New Combined Spring Tooth Siilky Harrow

C.[TLTI VATOR AND *SPllQDEI{.

lVIanufnctux-ed by

THE SCHAU & SCHUSTER SULKY
HARROW AND SEEDER COMPANY.

Kalamazoo, - Michigan,
As a combined lIl?’1Cllll'lB. it stands un-
rivalled in excellence, doing the work 0.
a llarrow and Seed Sower most thorough-
_' ly and satisfactorily. It has taken high
_' rank at once as ONE OF THE VERY
— BEST lMl’l.EMl£N’l‘S FOR THE USES
DESIGNED EVER INVENTEI). Sows
Harrow does not trail. and is of lighter
It received first premium and diplomas

all kinds of grain and grass seeds. The
draft than any other Harrow in the market.
wherever shown in 1880.

Eureka. Automatic Wind Engine,

WARRANTED TO CONTROL ITSELF IN ANY WIND.
'Pl-101$. P9 ..A-IO 9111 0'4 “MOVE HEAAOJ .LSElcl"VlHHO

It is the Only Mill on record whose Working Parts are Entirely Closed.
\Vill warrant it Never to Freeze Up or to be Hindered in any way by Storm or Ice.

I-'-"{3'&I=’§, TAIVIKE. £230.,

——-— MANUFACTURED BY ———-

SJNAIITE 823 VVOODARD.

KA ILA 1ll_4Z0(), III ICH.

SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW!
THE CHAMPION BARBED WIRE

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

OI=I.I}El'-It ‘§?'€)'EJ'£I.

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

In Fact, Everything You Want, of Your State Business Agency.
'1-'R©M&3 MASON,

Commission Merchant, 159 South VVater Street, Chicago, Ill.

g’PATRONS STATE BUSINESS AGENT._ N. B.—All goods bought on your order at WHOLE-
SALE BATES on day of purchase. Terms strictly cash. ,