The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-10-16

Tho Michigan crop report for Octo-
Der estimates the wheat crop for the year
at 2S. l27, $50 bushels, machine measure;
but correspondents report that ii per
cent. of this measurement blows out in
running through the tanning mill. and
the average weight per bushel after clean
ing is but fifty-eight pounds. The aver
age yield per acre in the State is 1898
bushels; the average for the five years
previous has been lG.ss bushels; 10 per
cont. of the farmers raised less than 20
bushels per acre, and per cent. raised
of bushels of wheat reported marketed
in September was l,l37 1886, at 1872 ele-
vators and mills; the total in August and
September was 2,249, 343 bushels. Oats
yield. 3,l97 bushels per acre; barley,
2,407. The yield of corn in the southern
counties is AZ bushels of ears per acre,
and 40 in the rest of the State; potatoes
yield about seven tenths of an average.
The crops suffered greatly from an Au-
gust and September drought. The aver
age for apples in the State is 81 per cent.
"A letter from Ann Arbor says the
number OF students in the University is
still rapidly increasing. The freshman
class in the literary depart me Mt numbers
43l, eighty-two more than the number at
the same time last year. 1t will reach
4s5 If the rate of increase is the same as
last year. There is now no doubt that
the attendance in the University will ex-
coed 2, $50, and 1t will probably run TO
1920. Already there are 800 more en-
frances than at the same time last year.
The greatest increase has been in the law
department, where l43 more students
have entered than at the same time last
year. 1t looks as if Michigan University,
which for some years stood second, is
now to stand first in the number of stu
dents among American colleges"
The Governor has appointed Frank
NJ. Carroll, of Grand Rapids, Michigan
representative to the National Farmers
Congress, to be held in Montgomery, Ala,
next month.
Many thousands of shoal trout eggs
have been collected at the United States
fish hatchery at Alpena. The spawn will
be sent to the Worthwhile hatchery to be
Matched, as the Alpena hatchery is used
for Matching whitefish.
Mrs. E. Fraser Blackstock, who is
we'll known in society circles in Bay City,
has written volume entitled, The Land
of the Viking and the Empire of the
Tar" which has been published by the
Putnams.
The Norwegians at Alpena are build
ing new church, and will use their old
one for q school.
The Detroit Free Press, in ANNOUNCE
ing the death of Judge Zephaniah w.
Bunce, of st. Clair who lacked but
month of being 1902 years old, says:
With the death of Judge Bunce, the last
prominent public man of the Michigan terri
torial period has passed away. Since the death
of Morgan l.. Martin, OF Wisconsin, he has been
the only survivor OF the Legislative councils of
Michigan, and Martin many years his
junior. Judge Bunce's longevity is remarkable
among men OF active public life. Although it is
nearly half century since he dropped from
public notice he had had n long and active SER
vice the bench. His great longevity
is illustrated by the fact that he was born be-
fore any of the men who have been Presidents
since the term OF William Henry Harrison, and
that President, who was but Il few years his
senior, died of old age more than forty years
ago. Judge Bunce was but five years the junior
OF Gen. Lewis Cass, and that distinguished
statesman passed away twenty-three years ago,
Mt the ripe age of 81 Only one Governor OF the
State OF Michigan was born before him. That
was William Woodbridge, who died full Of years
and honors nearly thirty years ago. He be-
longed TO past and almost forgotten genera
tions of men. And he was last OF the sturdy
public mon of that earlier Michigan that now
lives only in history. Peace to his weary bones
and honor to his memory