Our Farmers

One of that clsss of intelligent and broad-minded farmers who are tending more and more, to make agiiculture bath a soience and an art, is H. W. BAS8ETT, of Lodi. Like many "Michiganders" of the older generation, he spent his early life in the east. He was born fifty-eight years ago, on his father's farm in Onondaga county, New York. In hig seventh year he removed to Michigan with his father, who bought a farm in Lodi township. He gained an academie education atNutting's Seminary and subsequently to graduation there entered the University. While in Ann Arbor it was his custom to walk home every Saturday night. For a while after he took hia degree, he taught languages in the Tecumseh high school, but subsequentlv turned his attention tn civil engineering, which was to him more congenial. ín tbe pursuit of this vocation, he lived five years in Iowa and Illinois, but returned to Michigan ín 1860. Since that time he has devoted tiis attention to general farming and surveying. At present he is taking care of a ine pitee of land, 155 acres in sizé, situated about eight miles trom this city. He ia jresident of the Saline farmers' club and or twenty years he has been connected with the school board, either in tbe capai;y of trustee or of president. A repubican 6rst, last, and all the time, Mr. Basett keep himself posted on the doings of the politica! world. His home life has always been a pleasanc one. In 1862 he I was married to Miss Elsie M. Fowler, cf Saline, and he has now one son who is in the rnilway mail service. Mr. Bassett has always enjoyed phenomenally good bealth, and makes the proud boast that he has never been cooöned to his bed oae day on accouut of skkness. O. R. L. CROZIER. Early privaiion and subaequent prosperity mark the career of this gentleman. Wben very young he was left an orphan but was s on given a oomfortable home by a kind farmer, who oflfered him good aövantages ia every direction. He went through the d striot school, as a matter of course, but was not sat'sfied with the limited instrucción there offered, and afttrwards took a thorough course of stuiiy at Lima Seminary. Atter that, he sudi d about two years at Roohester Univeisity. For several yenrs before and after leaviog ooilege, Mr. Croz er taught school. In 1850-3 he was one of the editora of Tl e Advent Harbinger, a religious pap r published in Rochester, N. Y. Hs was married to Miss Maria P. Alger in 1853, and in the year following, the newly married couple removed to Michigan. They settled first at Grand Rapidp, where th y remained u.itil 18G5, when they took up forae wild land in Ottawa county. Oat of ihis wildemess Mr. Crozier in a short time prepared one of the finest fruit farms in the state. In 1883 he removed to his present location, near this city, for the parpose of giving his children, eight in number, those educational advantages which they oould not elsewhere obtain. Along with his stnctly Bgrieultural work, Mr. Crozier has at times performed the duties of a clergyman. Ia early life he was a staunch Methodist but at present he is disinclined to accept all the doctrines of the Wesleye. He is a very public spirited man and has performed great public services. Probably no one did more thao he to secure the revisión of the drainage W - a change fraught with great benefit to the state. The cause ol temperante and every principie of law, order, ad morality have fouud in him an ardent advocate.