moors of Yorkshire, where families live in stone huts scarcely worthy the name of cottages, and these not their own, without comfort, without garden, or any other surroundings of taste or culture, and, in five years, converts a portion of our Michigan wilderness into a productive and beautiful fruit-farm, with a well and tastefully furnished cottage, in the parlor of which we noticed a first-class piano, over which hung the life size portrait, painted in oil, of a beautiful young lady, by Orchardson, an original and excellent likeness of Mr. Petty's eldest daughter. The cottage is located near the lake, commanding a view of a landscape of great natural beauty; just such a home, in fact, as secures the best possible influence on the family circle.

Room for More.

There are yet thousands of sites in Michigan where similar homes can be reared. They only await the hand of plodding industry, such as is now struggling against want in England, and with only poverty sure in the future, on a pittance of ten or twelve shillings a week. Michigan and the United States can well afford to give such sites to secure such citizens. And they can be transferred from their homes of want in England to homes of plenty in Michigan, at about fifty dollars a head.

INVITATION TO MICHIGAN.

In his recent address on the occasion of laying the Corner Stone of the New State Capitol, Hon. William A. Howard pronounced the following eloquent invitation to Michigan, covering a broad hospitality with ample munificence:

"We are told upon the highest authority that The powers that be are ordained of God.' And hence we may conclude, without presumption, that He who made the world and all things therein, He who formed this Peninsula, with its productive power and its hidden treasures, wills that it should be not only the abode of His creatures, but the seat of a great, prosperous, and free State. All our physical development for

the 37 years; all our increase of wealth; all the unfolding of our vast natural resources, are but the adornment of the Peninsula that she may the more effectively woo the Heavenly Pilgrim. As a bride adorns herself for her husband, so every successive day she puts on still more beautiful garments, and beckons the Divinely appointed State to her bower. Her vast agricultural treasures, that block up the thoroughfares and crowd the marts of the world, all utter their voice, all say 'Come.' Her hundreds of thousands of tons of iron ore that annually come forth from their mountain seat and leap into all the channels of the commerce of the world say 'Come.' Her rich and extensive copper mines say 'Come.' Her forests of boundless wealth wave their welcome and say 'Come.' From year to year she displays her jewels, ever growing in brightness, and says with increased persuasiveness, 'Si quæris Peninsulam amœnam circumspice.'* The evidences are everywhere abundant that Providence designed and fitted this Peninsula to be the abode of an industrious and happy people, the place of an advanced civilization, the seat of a great, prosperous, independent, and free State."

* The motto on the scal of the State: If you would behold a beautiful Peninsula: look around.

REPORTS FROM COUNTY AGRICULTURAL

SOCIETIES.

BARRY COUNTY.

At the Annual Fair held on the grounds of the Society, October 2d, 3d, and 4th, the number of membership tickets issued were 537; number of entries 720; amount of premiums awarded $369.50. The officers for 1873 are:

THOMAS ALTOFT, President.

JOHN M. NEVINES, Secretary.

GENESEE COUNTY.

TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE GENESEE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

(Adopted at the Annual Meeting of the Society held January 8th, 1873.) In accordance with annual custom, for now almost a quarter of a century, and as required by your by-laws, this Board beg to submit, for your consideration, their report on the general condition of the Agriculture, Horticulture, and Manufactures of Genesee county, for the year 1872.

In our report a year ago we had occasion to comment upon