Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1881-05-26

NO. 4.

tigued laborer may rest his weary limbs,
end where the lazy man may lie unmo-
Tested to dream life away. The birds
and frogs make day and night melodi-
Gus and suppose it is the outburst of
a long pent up happin ess, and that we
should also be happy and rejoice that
the Lord has bestowed upon us so
many blessings.
Farmers are busy putting in tbeir
crops and Others preparing to build
houses as homes for themselves and
| families.
l.. W. Wight has commenced peeling
bark. He has advertised for a hun
dred men and his camp is at the burned
mill, two and half miles above this
village.
Several families have lately came TO
make their homes among us, among
them blacksmith, which was needed
here badly. We have also a shoemaker,
his name is Mcdonald, and his shop is
at present at the house of Laughlin
Mclaughlin, Esq.
We have now both our saw mill and
shingle mill in operation, and business
is rushing. The demand for team la
Dor is greater than the supply, and any
having teams would find it to their ad-
vantage to come to our locality for EN-
ployment.
The road train is taking away the
ties, and l understand they intend to
keep at it until they get all of the ties
and posts away.
We are glad to see Mr. Jesse A. Bar
ker is again on the street.
Mr.. VIM Goss, of this village, has
been the past few days doing a job of
plastering in Grayling. ID.
GRovE TOWNSHIP, May "a, 1881.
Editor AUdldnche.-I saw in the Av
ALANCHE of the 10Th inst, commu-
nication from South Branch, asking an
expression of opinion from the farm
ers of Crawford upon the subject of a
Farmers Club. Being one of them de-
pendent mortals myself, l will express
my opinion. 1t would be a benefit to
every person in the county, whether he
be farlaer or not. The future pros
perity of the county depends on our
making a success of farming. Every
permanent merchant and mechanic
knows this, and we are pleased to see
that Sailing, Hanson & Co. are trying
to help the farmers by selling them
plaster and phosphate at reasonable
rates.
have had some experience in farm
ers associations, and | know it is a
great benefit TO the farmers. By meet
ing together and telling what we have
done and are doing, creates a rivalry,
and we try TO out do each other. BY
doing so we improve ourselves and our
farms, and by giving our experience
we save labor and expense, as the ex-
perience of one farmer in one direc-
ton, if q success or a failure, will ans
wer for the rest. Experimental farm
ing is expensive, and no one farmer
can stand the expense of experiment.
ing in all directions. BY exchanging
ideas we find, if we are farmers, we
have reasoning faculties, and use them.
That old saying; If II boy is not bright
he is good enough for farmer, has
been dead long time. They make
doctors, lawyers, and preachers of
hem now.
Farming is a science that requires
more study and forethought than any
other trade We often see the same
kind of soil that will not raise the same
kind of crops as successfully as the
other. And we find by analyzeing
them that one has the same properties
for producing good crop as the other /;
but we find in one the plant food is so
pulverized and mixed with the soil that
it is easily taken up and used by the
plant, while in the other we find the
plant food so coarse and hard the plant
cannot use it. II we would Dissolve
this plant food it would produce as
good crops as the other.
One question to farmers: What shall
we use to produce the best crops on
our landsi w. G. JOHNSON.