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contract for over three months' school as they do not expect to collect over fifty 

 dollars. District No. 5, fractional, of Grayling and Center Plains, has about 

 twenty-five dollars on hand. There being only one pupil to attend during the fall 

 term, he was, with the approval of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, sent to 

 the Grayling school at the expense of the district. The district voted to raise one 

 hundred and fifty dollars and will collect about fifty dollars. It has on hand about 

 one hundred and fifty dollars' worth of superfluous furniture. 



District No. 5 of Grayling will possibly have their five months' school. It has 

 three pupils and a house that would accommodate at least fifty. Their director 

 says they had six hundred dollars' worth of furniture and fixings, mostly superflu- 

 ous. One district in Ball township will have no school. They have given up try- 

 ing. Some of our districts have fewer scholars than they had ten years ago, and 

 unless more settlers come in soon more of those now here will move away in order 

 to educate their children. 



RELATION OF THE UNIVERSITY TO THE FAHMER. 



PRESIDENT ANGELL, ANN ARBOR, AT WASHTENAW COUNTY INSTITUTE. 



The great object of the University is to do the best work possible for the whole 

 State; to educate men for all pursuits of life; to furnish the State as a whole with 

 broad minded, noble men, men with the best equipment the world can give, to do 

 their work for all, and to be a benefit to all. An erroneus idea prevails that the 

 graduates are equipped at public expense for private gain and return nothing to the 

 State for the money expended upon them. A man cannot appropriate an educa- 

 tion to himself. It inevitably becomes a public benefit. Take the average phy- 

 sician. Is his medical education of greater service to himself or to the community 

 in which he lives? He is much more a blessing to the world than to himself. It itj 

 in this broad view that the people should look at education. It is sometimes said 

 that each man should pay for his own education all it costs. Now, if this principle 

 were carried out it would not affect the rich, they would be educated in any case. 

 But where would the poor man's son be? If the day should ever come when poor 

 boys and girls cannot come and get the very best education Michigan has to offer, 

 that day my services shall be ended. If ever there shall be two distinct classes, the 

 rich and educated, and the poor and ignorant, then God have mercy on Michigan. 

 Michigan is glorious throughout the world because she has never set any barrier 

 to the highest and best education she has to offer, and she will never be untrue to 

 such a policy. This is the Michigan idea, any other is foreign. 



MARKETING FRUIT. 



T. C. WALKER, WESLEY, AT THE MASON COUNTY INSTITUTE. 



Choose such fruits only as will grow to perfection in this section of the country. 

 Train your trees so that the heads will be open and the fruit will color evenly as it 

 ripens. Thin all fruit trees so far that the fruit will have plenty of room and the 

 trees will not be overloaded. Proper thinning insures even size and at the same 

 time gives as many bushels, if not more; moreover, it saves time at picking when 

 we most need it. The fruit should be just the right color when picked. It requires 

 experience to know just when to pick peaches. It depends among other things how 

 far the peaches are to be shipped. Better to go over the same tree three or four 

 times and take each time only those peaches that are ready to ship than attempt to 

 pick all the peaches on the tree at one operation. Use only new, clean and tasty 

 packages. The neater the package the better it sells. The package must be an hon- 

 est one as to size. If it purports to be a fifth bushel it should contain a fifth bushel 

 and not a less amount. There are all together too many different sized packages in 

 use. When you put up a package of fruit put your name and address on it and 



