Tir E TO THE PATRONS OF SUGAR RIV- bers who rarely if ever attend. And Grange will not only disfigure it and THE GRANGE VISITOR, ER GRANGE, No. 12.5, WIS. it could not be otherwise. Still they hurt its growth, but will in time Is Published on the First and Fifteenth of say as innocently as though the bring decay upon the whole tree. It BY W. ATHEETON. every Month dormant condition of their Grange is belter to cut them away. Do not We go to work at early dawn, was not the doings—or rather the allow them to destroy the work, the AT FIFTY CENTS PER ANNUM, And work till evening shades appear; non-doings—of just such sluggish result of which you have labored so Invariably in Advance. And thus continue through the week, earnestly to produce. If a member Till Saturday at two we're here, members as they, "I don't see as .1. T. C OBB, - - Manager. Our weary body's seek a change. the Grange does us one particle of has not the good of the Grange at And to this end we meet in grange. heart his place is not in it. Some To whom all communications should be ad- good." Suppose they should purchase a nice farm, and after the necessary Granges have borne such burdens too dressed, at Schoolcraft, Mich. Our rural friends and patrons iiud long. They have carried them until Remittances should be by Registered Letter, That over-work, neglect of mind, writings were completed and the Money Order or Draft. And constant care, without respite, money was paid over, that they shoujd they are broken down, and there is Will turn our day to darkest night; go away and leave it by itself with no now but the broken trunk to be seen To Contributors. Then patrons let us have a change where the strong and beautiful tree As the VISITOR now bears date the 1st and one to take care of it, and should pay And once a week we'll meet in grange. once stood—the result of not pruning. loth of each month, to insure insertion in the no attention to it. Would their prof- next issue, Communications must be received Our principles you'll own are just; its be very large, or would their farm But where pruning has been prac- by the 10th and 25th of each month. We in- To the greatest number we will do increase in worth very fast ? and yet ticed, the result is, that more interest The greatest good ; we humbly trust, is manifested, new life seems infused vite attention to those interested to our new- And charity to all bestow. there is just as much sense in sup- Heading "To COBBESPONDEKTS." We'll not attempt to disarrange posing this as in thinking the Grange into the members, and they are strong Just principles within the grange. will benefit a person whether he at- for the work.—Dirigo Rural. RATES OP ADVERTISING : tends its meetings or not. They per- We wish to educate the mind ; haps think that they confered a great Acceptable advertisements inserted at the Add dignity to labor too ; [From the Michigan Farmer.] rate of SI.00 per square, for each insertion. Be just, be honest, and fear not. favor by affixing their names to the Cross-Breeding Wheat. Do well, wliat'er we attempt to do. A Liberal discount will be made on standing roll-book and that was the extent of Sometimes the sisters will arrange advertisements of three months or more. A sumptuous feast within the grange, their duty. And now the Grange The beneficial effects of crossing must unload its benefits right at their different varieties of plants of the BW For Orange Supplies kept by the Secretary, In things essential let us work doors, and they sit with folded hands, same species is being frequently dis- see " LIST OF SUPPLIES " on eighth page. In harmony, in unity; while others are at work, striving to cussed through our leading agricul- In non-essentials, liberty; hold up its principles from falling into And temper all with CHARITY, tural papers. 1 beg to inform the read- Officers National Crange. And useful hints we'll interchange, utter disgrace. Whatever we expect ers of the FARMER of a very marked That we may profit by the grange. to receive in trade we expect to pay MASTER—S. E. ADAMS, Minn. instance c? it in my experimental OVERSEER-J. J. WOODMAN, Mich. - its equivalent value in return. And grounds at this time. LECTURER—MORT'MR WHITEHEAD, >I J. Much might be saved in the way of trade this principle holds good in regard to If we would but co-operate;. STEWARD—A. J. VAUGHN, Miss. the Grange. If we expect to receive In a small plot of ordinary graund, ASST. STEWARD—WILLIAM SIMS, Kansas. And save in some if not in all CHAPLAIN—A. P. FORSYTH, Illinois. The sales, and purchases we make : a benefit, either socially, intellectually containing now a large number of TREASURER—F. M. McDOWELL, N. Y. When this we do 'twill not be strange or financially, we must give in return varieties of wheat, I planted last Sept., It' we shall profit by the grange. SECRETARY—O. H. KF.LLEY, Kentucky. our time and attention. among others, nine grains of Victor OATE-KEEPER—0. DINWIDDIE, Indiana. CERES—MRS. S. E. ADAMS, Minnesota. Then Patrons lift our banner high : wheat that had been carefully fructi- POMONA—MRS. J. J. WOODMAN, Michigan. And sing your grateful songs of praise ; The seeond requisite to a successful fied with pollen of a productive Egyp- FLORA—MRS. JAS. T. MOORE, Maryland. Sustain our noble principles, Grange is work. If we should not tian variety. My reasons for choos- LADY ASSTISTANT STEWARD—MISS CARRIE A. And hope, and look for brighter days ; use oar arm for a sufficient length of HALL, Kentucky. Then words of cheer we'll interchange, ing these two varieties were the ex- Hurrah ! hurrah ! for Valley Grange. time it would become useless and we cellent straw and remarkable stooling should have no control over it. But Officers Michigan State Crange. qualities as well as the fine white grain The Successful Grange. by constant use it acquires strength. of the Victor, and the immense head M.-J. J. WOODMAN, Paw Paw. It needs exercise that will give action of the Egyptian. From the nine O.-P. W. ADAMS, - Tecumseh. to all its muscles. J ust so is it with L.-C. L. WHITNEY, Muskegon. It was evident to the founders of grains sown only seven germinated.— S.-H. FLEMING, Pontiac. our Order that something was needed the iniod. That needs exercise to Three of these are about the same as Ionia. A. S.—W. H. MATTISON, to enable the farmer to rise, socially keep it strong and healthy; and the old varieties and some of the C.—SALMON STEEL, Bear Lake. Manis'e Co equally true is it that a Grange to be T.-S. F. BROWN, - - Schoolcraft. and financially to a level with other newer varieties growing by their side, SEC.—J. T. COBB, ..." trades and professions. And so, for a healthy, useful Grange, must work. viz, throwing up three or four stalks «. K.-A. N. WOODRUFF, - Watervliet. the accomplishment of that purpose It must have lectures, essays, papers, with ordinary sized heads. The oth- CERES.—MRS. C. L. WHITNEY, Muskegon. recitations, discussions, and last, but POMONA—MRS. W. T. ADAMS, Grand Rapids. the Order of Patrons of Husbandry er four varieties under exactly the FLORA—MRS. J. .T. WOODMAN, Paw Paw. was instituted. What the Grange not by any means least, music—some- same treatment, were remarkably pro- L. A. S.—MRS. W. H. MATTISON, Ionia. may do towards bringing about this thing for each and every one to do. ductive, and I have this day counted And the Grange that does not neglect sixty-eight stalks from one of the Executive Committee- result depends how it is conducted. The regular routine of business is these things will not fail to have in- grains sown. And in one of the F. M. HOLLOWAY, Chairman, - Hillsdale. necessary, and is instructive; but teresting and profitable meetings, if heads I counted eighty good plump J. WEBSTER CHILDS, - - - Ypsilanti. all work in harmony. There should GEO. W. WOODWARD, Shelby, Oceana Co. something more is needed to make a grains, and in the poorest head thirty- C. G. LUCE, - - Gilead, Branch Co. success—to make it strong. And the be a diversity of work. To change five grains, being at the very least WESTBROOK DIVINE, Belding, Ionia Co. first requisite is promptness. This often rests the tired muscles while the 4,000 grains from the one sown. THOMAS MARS, Berrien Center, Berrien Co. others are getting their needful exer- WM. SATTERLEE, Birmingham, Oakland Co. should be the first and greatest law to J. J. WOODMAN, J. T. COBB, - Ex. Officio. cise. And this is true of the mind. Surely upon the principle that every member, Promptness shows " like produces like," if only the best that there is interest felt in the work. Then there should be recreation for State Business Agents. all —old and young. Recreation is of these grains are selected from the Where every member is cn hand, largest and best of the heads for a J. M. CHIDESTER, - - - Detroit. ready to do whatever may be for the just as necessary as work. Without J. H. GARDNER, Centreville, St. Joseph Co. number of years, the grain thus pro- good of the Grange, where all is this we should be unfit for work.