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Michigan State

VOL. 1.

SCHOOLCRAFT, DECEMBER, 1875.

No. 9.

Officers Michigan State Grange.
Paw Paw.
- Tecumseh.
Muskegon.
Pontiac.
Ionia.
Albion.
Schoolcraft.
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.— J. J. WOODMAN, — -
w. ADAMS, - -
L. WHITNEY, - -
.—H. FLEMING,

s.—w. I-I. MATTISON, - -
C.

.—P.
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. A M. FITCH, - - -
E —J. T. COBB, - - -
.—S‘. F. BROWN, - - -
G. K.——A. E. STRONG, - - Vicksburg.
CEBES.—MRS. N. CI-IILSON, Battle Creek.
PoMoNA—MB.s. W. T. ADAMS, Grand Rapids.
FLORA—-MRS. J. J. WOODMAN, Paw Paw.
L. A. S.—Mns. W. H. MATTISON, Ionia.

Executive committee.

NATHANIEL CHILSON, Chairman and State
Purchasing Agent, Battle Creek.
SAMUEL LANGDON, - Bowen Station.
ALONZO SESSIONS, - - Ionia.
J. WEBSTER CHILDS, - Ypsilanti.
F. M. HOLLOWAY, - - Hillsdale.
GEO. W. VVOODWARD, Shelby, Oceana Co.
W. A. VVALES, - - Disco, Macomb Co.
J. J. WOODMAN, J. T. COBB, — Ex. Oflicio.

Deputies.

C. L. 'WHITNEY, Gen. Deputy, Muskegon.
THOS. MARS, for Berrien Co., P. 0. Berrien Cr.
Enson PACKARD, Gratiot “ “ Forest Hill.
P. W. ADAMS, Lenawee “ “ Tecumseh.
RIcH’D MOORE, Clinton “ St. Johns.
E. J. HODGES, Hillsdale “ Jonesville.
JAS. ANDERSON, Sanilac “ Ifarmers.
Wm. F. LEWIS, Oceana. “ “ New Era.
ARCHIBALD ROBERTSON, Shiawassee, Owosso.

THE VISITOR is issued monthly by
order of the Executive” Committee,
under the supervision of the Master
and Secretary of the State Grange. It
is sent to the Master and Secretary of
each Grange, and it should be read in
open Grange at the‘ first meeting after
it is received, for the information of
members. The subscription price of
the VISITOR is 40 cents per annum.

We shall adhere to Grange princi-

ples, and require the money with the-

order.

The last‘ page will be devoted to
advertisements, of interest to Patrons,
at the following rates:

One column 1 month, . . . . . _. . .
[1 Al ‘K . I

Quarter “ “ “ . .
One-eighth “ “ . .

On advertisemen
months, a discount of ten per cent.
will be made.

On advertisements ordered for six
months, a discount of twenty per cent.
will be made. ‘

On advertisements ordered for 12
months, a discount of thirty per cent.
will be made.

Send money in registered letter, by
postofiice money order, or draft, and
direct all communications to J. T.
Cobb, Schoolcraft, Mich.

THE Kalamazoo Business College is
crowded with students. Call and see
this hive of business knowlcx ge,

BIICIIIGAN STATE GRANGE.

Annual Address of the iVlaste1'——
Secretan-y’s Report, etc.

REPRESENTATIVE HALL,
Lansing, Dec. 14th, 1875. f

At 2 1*. 31., the appointed hour, the
State Grange was called to order by
VVorthy Master Woodman.

The roll of members elect was called
by the Secretary and a quorum found
present.

A Committee on Credentials having
been appointed and made their report,
the Worthy Master delivered his an-
nual address, as follows:

l$EAS'I‘ER’S ADDRESS.
fllembei-s of Zilichigan State G’:-mega,

Patrons of IIzcsbu72.(Zr3/ .'

As the chosen Representatives of the
Subordinate Granges of Michigan, We
have met to-day to consider grave
and important questions relating to
the interests of the agriculturists of
our State and Country ; and to devise
means for a closer, stronger, and more
perfect organization; and encourage a
more general and systematic co-ope-
ration among farmers. The propitious
year just drawing to a close, ladened
with its fruits and its blessings, should
remind us of the goodness and conde-
scentions of the Great Giver of all
good; and fill our hearts with deep
gratitude for the blessings bestowed.
Then let us acknowledge our obliga-
tions to Him, and invoke His aid and
guidance in all our deliberations.

As I cast my eyes upon these fa-
miliar walls and objects, I am remin-
ded that we have assembled in the
Legislative Hall of our State, where
the representatives of the people have
for a long number of years been ac-
customed to meet, and enact the laws
which have helped to develop our
State, and “make the wilderness to
bud and blossom as the rose.”

Although we do not meet as legis-
lators, to enact laws for the State, yet
no legislative body ever assembled in
these halls, with duties more closely
connected with the interests and Wel-
fare of the people, than those devolv-
ing upon us.

It is the aim of our organization to
make the daily lives of men and W0-
men better, nobler, truer, holier and
happier, to encourage education, so-
cial culture, and a better development
of the noble faculties of our natures,
to provlde for ourselves and our chil-
dren comfortable homes, unincumber--
ed farms, and a fair remuneration for
the products of‘ our labor; to beautify

our homes and increase their attrac-
tion for our children, and their love
tor them and our profession, and there.
by encourage the boys to stay upon
the farms, to prevent family jars, dis-
sensions and seperations, to lesson
neighborhood strife and disagree-
ments, and prevent litigation among
farmers, to increase the income of our
farms by better cultivation, greater
diversity of crops, closer study of the
market, and increased knowledge of
the laws of trade; to diffuse among
the members of the Order a better
knowledge of business, and the theo-
ry of practicing economy in all things,
discarding the “credit system, the
mortgage system, and every other
system that leads to prodigality and
bankruptcy; and thus by increasing
the profits of labor, and systematizing
our business, bridge over the chasm
between labor and its results, with
joys and blessings which make labor
pleasant, healthful and honorable, and
the laborer contented and happy; to
encourage home manufactures, and
every" branch of productive industry,
to bring the producer and consumer
into the closest and most intimate re-
lations, to encourage the building of
railroads and canals, and the improve-
ment of our rivers and harbors, and
thereby secure cheaper transportation
for our surplus produce to market;
and to demonstrate to the world that
farming is a profession, and all who
are engaged in it are closely allied in
sympathies and interests, and can co-
operate in an organization for their
own mutual benefit and protection, as
well as persons engaged in the other
avocations of life.

These are among the principles
which underlie our Order, and Will in-
dicate something of the nature of the
work before us.

This State Grange was organized
April 15th, 1873, with but nineteen
subordinate granges, they now num-
ber 611. The excitement and novelty
attending the organization of Gran-
ges, has in a measure passed away,
and we are now dealing with stern
facts and principles, that will demon-
strate the strength or weakness of the
organization. Then We were teach-
ing a theory, now We are practicing
that theory. Then We werevinspired
with the anticipation of reelizin some
real benefit from- the "organiza.ti'on,‘now
we are encouraged and strengthened
by _ whatwe f have accomplished, or
discouraged by failing to realize all
that we anticipated. . '  '

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co-operatioii among farmers,” has been
practically solved by hundreds Of
Granges in our own State, and by
thousands in other States; and I have
failed to learn of a single instance,
where a Grange. has put forth a rea-
sonable effort to secure to its mem-
bers the benefits of the Order, either.
social, educational or financial, "that
has not received a full measure of re-
wards; and in every instance where
the members of a Grange have failed
to be benefited, the fault has been with
the Grange. These facts should in-
spire us with renewed confidence in
the teachings of the Order, and stimu-
late us to greater and more determin-
ed effort, to put them in practice.-
“That which costs nothing is worth
nothing,” and “eternal vigilance is
the price of libert ',” are maxinis that
should be emblazoned upon the walls
of every Grange hall, and instilled in-
to the mind of every member.

NATIONAL GRANGE.

At the last meeting of the State
Grange the following resolutions were
adopted:

1. Resolved, That our representatives to the
National Grange be requested to use their efforts
in getting a revision of our Ritual at the next
session of the National Grange, so as to con-
form to the copy reported by Bro. T. A. Thoinp-
son. of the National Grange.

Resolved, That the representatives of this
Grange to the National Grange be instructed to
use their best endeavors to have the Constitu-
tion of the National Grange so amended that
the National Grange shall consist of two repre-
sentatives from each State Grange, who snall be
elected annually.

Resoived, That they be instructed to use their
influence to have the surplus money now in the
treasury of the National Grange distributed
pro rate. among the several State Granges, ex-
cept so much as may be needed for the neces-
sary expenses of the same.

These resolutions were presented to
the National Grange, and your repre-

sentatives labored to secure the re-
quired changes in the Ritual and Coii- 
stitution of the Order.

‘ The Ritual as revised has been ad-
opted, and will be published as soon
as a new edition is required.

Other State Granges not asking for
the change indicated in the second res-
olution, it was not made.

The discussion of the principles em-
bodied in the third resolution opened
up the whole subject of the financial
condition and workings of the Nation-
al Grange, the Executive Committee
asking and demanding a thorough and
complete investigation of every busi-
ness transaction entrusted to their
hands, and explained every act that
was questioned, to the satisfaction of
all, that honesty and integrity had
characterized every business transac-
tion of the National Grange.

The history of the organization
shows that the receipts during the first
five years of its existence were not
sufficient to cover the actual and nec-
essary expenses, and many of the offi-
cers labored without pay, as the fol.
lowing resolution passed at the sixth
annual meeting will indicate:

Resolved, That whenever a. surplus of $1,000
shall be in the treasury of the National Grange
not otherwise appropriated, the Master of the
National Grange shall issue a draft, counter-
signed b the Secretary, upon the Treasurer, in '
favor of in. Saunders; D. C., for that amount.

This resolution -was passed by a
standing vote, and the amount appro-
priated as a. testimonial for the years
of valuable labor given to the Order

by that able and worthy oflicer. Du-

ring the‘ years 1873 and ’74, the Order
grew rapidly and the receipts were
large ; but the expenses necessary to
furnish the new Granges with blanks,
Rituals, song-books, instructions, sani-
ples of regalia, and to pay for postage,
drayage, and express charges, as well
as for labor, clerk-hire, and the expen-
ses of Organizing Deputies, were cor-
respondingly large. Yet, on the 1st

day of January’ 1875’ there was in the 3 wives who are imit.i'oiis, shall be entitled

treasury $92,353.95. From this sum 4.

the N ational Grange authorized a loan

to the several Stute Granges, without 
interest, in proportion to the amount 5
paid in, of $54,825, at the same time ‘~

reducing the amount of annual dues

required of members from ten to five ,
cents. that being the whole amount I

required of members to support the
National Grange. By recent action of
the National Grange, this loan has been
made a donation to the State Granges,
and our State Grange will receive

$1,377.50, with interest at six per cent

per annum from the first day of the
present month until drawn. The ex-
penses of every department of the Na-
tional Grange have been reduced.--
The salary of the Master has been re-
duced trom $2,000 to $1,200 per annum,
the Seeretary’s from $2,500 to $2,000,
the Treasurer’s from $1,000 to $600,
and the Executive Committee and
Lecturer receive five dollars per day
each, when engaged in business for the
Order. Under the present arrange-
ment it is expected that the receipts
will be suilicient to cover all expenses,
but no large amount can accumulate
in the treasury. No fears need be
entertained for the safety of surplus
funds in the treasury of the National

Grange, for they are invested in gov- ‘

ernment bonds drawing six )er cent.  _ , , ,
° 1 ; the seventh line of said article : “ And

interest and as safe as the government
itself.

AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.
The following amendments to the
Constitution of our Order Were pro-
posed by the National Grange at its
ninth annual session, held in Louis-
ville, Ky., November, 1875, which I
submit for your careful consideration.
Each amendment must be considered
and voted upon separately, and‘ if rat-
ifled by three-fourths of all the State
Granges, will be incorporatecl into the
Constitution :

1. Amend the preamble. under the
head of “ STATE GRANGE,’ ’ by substi-
tuting the following for section 1 :

“ Section 1. Fifth Degree. Pomona
(Hope). Composed of the Masters and
Past Masters ofvsubordinate Granges,
and their wives who are matrons ; pro-
vided that Past Masters and their wives
who are matrons shall be honorary
members, eligible to oflice, but not enti-
tled to vote; and provided that when
the number of Subordinate Granges in
any State becomes so great as to render
it necessary, the State Grange may, in
such manner as it _may determine, re-
duce its representatives by providing for
the election of a certain proportion of
those entitled to membership in the
State Grange from each county, and the
members so chosen shall constitute the
voting members of the State Grange.”

2. Amend the preamble, under the
head of “ _STA'rE GRAN_GE,” by adding
the following: “ The Wives of the dele-
gates elected to the State Grange as pro-
vided for in the preceding section, if ma-
lk1’I'0é1S,”Shall be voting members of that

0 y.

3. Amend the constitution, under the
head of “ ORGANIZATION or S'rA'rn
(masons, in the 4th line of page 4, by

 

striking out the words “not to exceed
three.” _
4. Amend the preamble-to the Consti-
tution, under the head “NATIONAL
GRANGE” by inserting between the
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words “ Maste-i'” and “ of,” where they
occur in the second line of said para-
graph, the words “Past Masters and
their wives,” and also by adding at the

close of said paragraph the Words follow- ’

ing, to wit: " 1-‘rovided, that only those
members of the National Grange who
are l\lasters of State Granges, and their

to vote theri-in ; and provided further,
that Past M:istc,»i's and their wives who
have taken the Degree of Pomona, and
all fornier niciiilsers of the National
Grange, shall be» honorary members of
the National Grange and eligible to oi’-
fice therein, but shall not be entitled to
vote.”

7). Amend article 1, section 1, of the
constitution by inserting the word “Dis-
trict” between the words “State” and
“ or," where they occur in the second.
line of said section.

7. Amend article 1, section 2, of the
constitution by inserting between the
words “practicable” and “ in,”wliere
they occur in the fourth line of said sec-
tion, the words following, to wit: “In
the District Grange annually at such
time as each District Grange may de-
termine.”

7. Amend article 1, section 2, of the
constitution by striking out the word
“three,” where it occurs in the sixth
line of said section, and inserting in lieu
thereof the word “ two.”

8. Amend article 2, section :2, of the
constitution by inserting between the
words “ annually" and “at,” wliere
they occur in the first line of said sec
tion, the words “ or bieniiially,” and by
striking out the words “ from year to
year,” where tliey occur in the second
line of said section.

9. Amend article 6 of the constitution
by substituting the following therefor:
“ Each State Grange shall fix the fee for
membership in its own jurisdiction.”

10. Amend article 5 by adding the fol-
lowing after the word "refuuded,” in

 no petition shall be received from a rejec-

ted applicant until six montlis shall have
elapsed after such rejection.”

11. Amend article 7, section 1, of the
constitution by substituting therefor the
following: “ Each member shall pay
into the treasury of the Subordinate
Grange to which he belongs a monthly
due, to be determined by the State
Grange to which it is attached.”

12. Amend article 7, section 2, of the
constitution by substituting therefor the
following: “The Secretary of each Sub-
ordinate Grange shall report quarterly
to the Secretary of his State Grange the
number of persons initiated since his
last report, and also the number who, by
death, expulsion, removal, or otherwise,
have ceased to be members within the
same time; and shall pay to the Secre-
tary of the State Grange such an amount
of dues on each member and fees for each
person initiated during the quarter as
the State Grange may determine; pro-
vided that any State Grange may require
such reports and payments to be made
through the Secretaries of the County
Granges.”

13. _Am_eiid article 7, section 3, of the
cpnstitution by striking out the word

ten,” where it occurs in the third line
of said section, and inserting in lieu
thereof the word “ thirty.”

1-1. _Amend article 8, section 7, of the
cpnstitution by striking out the word

one, ’ where it occurs in the first line
of said section, and inserting in lieu
thereof the word “ two.”

The first amendment restores Past
Masters and their wives who are mat-
1'011Sa 130 honorary membership in the
State Grange, making them eligible to
Oflice, but not entitled to vote, and
defining who are voting members of
the State Grange.

The second amendment defines the

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meaning of the first, iiiahiiig the wives
of all delegates elected to the State
Grange voting members, and entitled
to all the rights and privileges of elect-
ed dele ates.

The third will make all fourth de-
gree members, in good standing, eli-
gible to membership in the Pomona
Grange, and entitled to receive the
lessons ofthe Fifth Degree.

The fourth amends the preamble
under the head of “ National Grange,”
by restoring Past Masters and their
wives to honorary membership, and
defining who are voting members of l
the National Grange. l

The fifth corrects an omission in
section one of the Constitution.

The sixth requires that oflicers shall
be elected annually in district or 
county Granges.

The seventh will limit the term of
oilice, in the Nationel Grange, to two
years, instead of three, as provided in
the present Constitution.

The eighth will allow State Granges
to hold biennial sessions only, if they
so desire.

The ninth will give each State
Grange power to fix the fee for mem-
bership within its jurisdiction.

The tenth defines the time that
must elapse before a rejected candidate
can renew his application for member-
ship.

The eleventh makes it the duty of
the State Grange to fix the amount of
dues to be paid to it, by subordinate
Granges.

The twelfth prescribes the duties of
Secretaries in making their quarterly
reports.

The thirteenth extends the time,
from ten to thirty days, that Secreta-
ries of State Granges are required to
pay over to the Treasurer all moneys
in their hands.

The fourteenth will allow subordi-
nate Granges to confer two degrees
on the same candiate, at the same
meeting.

As most the State Granges hold
their annual meetings within the next
two months, these amendments will
be voted upon, and, if ratified, will be
so announced by proclamation of the
Master of the National Grange, and
will take effect at the date of such
proclamation.

Any legislation that is deemed ne-
cessary to secure to the Order the ben-
efits of these amendments, should be
made to take effect, when the amend-
ments are ratified.

FEES AND D UES.

In determining the amount of mem-
bership fees and quarterly dues to be
paid by members, much discretion
and forethought should be exercised.
A Grange with a strong treasury will
live and prosper, while one with its
treasury empty or bankrupt, will lan-
guish and die.

BUSINESS C0-OPERATION.

One of the most important questions
that will demand y0u1' attention, is
that of business co-operation. This
important interest of the Order should
be encouraged; and a system, simple,
safe, and practical in its operations ad-
opted, so as'to bring the business of
co-operation within the reach of every
member of the Order.

{State Grange have labored faitlifully

and well, to develop a system for busi-
' ness, and have succeeded as well as
, could be expected. A large amount
* has been saved to members of the Or-
l der through the business operations of

E the State and Local Agents; and no ,‘
‘ by the subordinate Granges associat-
ing together. in convenient business,

losses have been sustained, that have
,« come to my knowledge. Much credit
3 is due to the committee, for their un-
tiring zeal, and wise discretion; yet the
system and plans devised by them,
could only be experimental in their op-
erations, and their success, demon-
strated, only by practical test.

Much valuable information upon this
important subject, can be gathered
from the experience of our State and
Local agents, that will aid in perfect-
ing a system.

The Executive Committee of the Na-
tional Grange, composed of men of
large business experience, have devot-
ed mnch time and labor, in preparing
a system for co-operative stores, and
business, which seems to be simple and
practical, requiring but a small capi-
ml to commence business with ; and
may be adopted and successfully ope-
rated by a single grange, or a number
of granges associating together. This
is substantially the Rochedale plan,
which has been put into practical ope-
ration in England, with results entire-
ly satisfactory, and is acknowledged to
be the most successful plan for business
co-operatioii that has ever been devis-
ed. This system was considered, and
recommended by the National Grange;_
a copy of which is herewith submitted
for your consideration.

-I am inclined to the opinion, that
however perfect and well devised may
be this system, many of the subordin-
Granges will continue to mass their
orders, and deal directly with the man-
ufacturers. Hence State and Local
Agents will be needed, and should be
provided for. The following will indi-
cate my views of the duties of a State
Agent.

 

1st. To make contracts with manu-

facturers and wholesale dealers, for the
benefit of subordinate granges, and co-
operative. associations.

2d. To fill the orders for Local
Agents when accompanied with cash,
at cost.

3d. To employ reliable business men,
in some of the commercial cities, to
sell farm produce at reasonable rates,
taking ample security for fair dealing
and prompt remittances.

4th. To secure the lowest and best
rates for freight, on farm produce and
all articles, shipped or ordered by au-
thorized agents of the Order: for the
benefit of members of the Order.

5th. To co-operate with the agents
of other States, by exchanging price
lists, filling each others orders, purchas-
ing together, selling together, and unit-
ing their influence and efforts, to se-
cure desirable purchases, low freights,
and uniformity in business operations.

6th. To do no retail business.

_ The experience of the past has dem-
onstrated that manufacturers and
wholesale dealers Will sell at lower
rates, when goods are bought in quan-
tities, and paid for in cash; hence the
agent should be supplied with funds,
to enable him to take advantage of the
market and buy at the lowest possible

The Executive Committee of the

rates. For this purpose fiiuds could

be supplied from the treasury of the
State Grange, taking ample security
for the same. The agent should re-
ceive‘a reasonable compensation for
his services, which might also be paid
by the State Grange.

Local Agents should be appointed

centers, and to be paid for their serv-
ices in such manner as the Grangcs
employing them may determine. Ex-
amples worthy of imitation for our
agents and subordinate Granges, may
be found, in the experience and prac-
tice of our most successful business
men. They commenced business with
small capital, doing a limited but safe
business at first, studying diligently to
establish a reputation for honesty, and
promptness in all business matters, and
to obtain a thorough knowledge of
business, and the laws of trade,——in-
creasing their business with the accu-
mulated means and knowledge, and
thus mastered their profession. So our
agents, subordinate granges, and co-
operative associations, should com -
mence buying and selling upon a safe
cash basis, studying carefully the laws
of trade, state and fiuctuation of the
market, and value of all commodities,-
increasing their business as their ac-
cumulated means, wants, and knowl-
edge may justify.
1’O.VIO1\’_»\ Cl:AN(:ES.

The Pomona Grange should have a
general supervision of the work of the
Order within the district, and should
“encourage, strengthen, and aid the
subordinate granges ” If the third
amendment proposed to the constitu-
tion is ratified, these Granges will be
open to every fourth degree member
in good standing, and will constitute
large and strong organizations, with
ample means and influence to accom-
plish a valuable work, in systematizing
business, preserving harmony, aiding
the weak, encouraging the dishearten-
ed, and infusing life and interest into
all the subordinate Granges within
their jurisdiction. They should hear
and adjust all matters of difference be-
tween contiguous Granges, assist in es-
tablishing jurisdiction; and should pro-
vide for public meetings and discus-
sions, at such times and places as the
good of the Order may require. It
should be made the duty of the Lee-
turer of the Pomona Grange, to visit
every subordinate Grange within {the
limits of its jurisdiction, at least once
in each year, and oftener if necessary,
and give instructions in the unwritten
work and deliver addresses upon sub-
jects relating to the interests and wel-
fare of the Order.

I am of the opinion that much good
could be accomplished, and the inter-
ests of the Order promoted, by requir-
ing subordinate Granges to make quarfi
terly reports to the county or Pomona
Granges. Blanks could be furnished
for this purpose by the State Grange,
and filled by the Secretary at the last
meeting in each quarter; and forward-
to the Secretary of the Pomona Grange
to be read to that body, and placed on
file or recorded in a book to be pro-
vided for that purpose. These reports
should give the number of members re-
ceived during the quarter, the number
suspended or expelled, and the whole
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Also the receipts and expenditures dur-
ing the quarter, and amount in the
treasury, condition of the library and
number of volumes added thereto,
amount of sales and purchases through
the grange agencies, and amount saved,
also mode of co-operation in business,
successes and failures, and general re-
marks.

I am also of the opinion that a sys-
tem of crop reports, can be inaugurated,
that will cost but a trifle, and yet be
of great value to members of the Or-
der. Blanks for this purpose cauld be
furnished with the blanks for general
reports, and filled at the same meeting.
These reports should give the condition
of the growing crops, within the juris-
diction of the Grange, yield, when
harvested, amount raised, surplus for
market, 850., &e. This information
could be compiled by the Secretary of
the Pomona Grange, and sent to the
Secretary of the State Grange, and
published in the Visiron.

In my judgment, no other system of
crop reports can be devised, that will
furnish this valuable information so ac-
curate, at small expense, and tend so
much to develop thought among the
members of the Order upon this im-
portant sudject. I submit it for your
consideration.

Ten Pomona Granges have been or-
ganized and are in successful working
order, and other applications are in.
I have placed the work of organization
in the hnnds of the VVorthy State Dep-
uty, for detailed account of which, I
refer you to his report. A form of By-
Laws should be provided for Pomona
and subordinate Granges, and publish-
ed with the By-Laws of the Stat e
Grange.

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

On entering upon the duties of the
Master’s oflice, I was early impressed
with the absolute necessity of a regu-
lar and more direct medium of com-
munication between the State Grange,
and Subordinate Granges, in order to
furnish the subordinate Granges with
the information and instructions which
they asked, and were entitled to re-
ceive. All communication between
the State and subordinate Granges, up
to that time, had been carried on by
written correspondence, and circulars
issued by the Executive Committee at
irregular periods, and considerable ex-
pense to the State Grange. The cor-
respondence of the Master’s ofiice had
become almost overwhelming. VVor-
thy Master S. F. Brown, realizing the
situation, in his communication to the
last State Grange, recommended, that
this Want, be supplied by establishing
a State organ, which the State Grange
refused to do. I called the attention
of the Executive Committee to this
subject, and they decided to issue 3
Circular monthly. totake the place of
all other circulars, except such as Iniohf,
be necessary to communicate mattgrs
which the good of ' the Order requirci
to be strictly confidential. The Exec-
utive_ Committee had no intention of
publishing a newspaper, but an Exec-
utive Circular, containing oflicial in-
formation, and matter relating directly
to the interests of the Order. As the
word “ Circular ” was construed to im-
ply a trancient sheet, it became neces-
sary to change the name in order to
secure lower rates of postage. This

whole subject is subniitted for your
consideration, and the accompanying
documents will explain more fully the
action of the Executive Committee,
and other matters relating to the sub-
ject.
TRIALS AND APPEALS.

No well defined system for trials and
appeals have been provided for the Or-
der. I recommend that a suflicient
number of blank forms, to give system
and uniformity of action in all cases,
be provided and published with the
By-Laws.

STATE LECTURER AND GENERAL DEPUTY.

These two offices have been combin-
ed in one, and the duties of that oificer
have been arduous, with pay not coin-
mensurate with the labor performed.
It isaprinciple in our noble Order,
that “the laborer is worthy of his hire.”
The body must have “food and rai-
ment,” and the wife and children a
home and t he comforts of life. I
would not recommend, high salaries,
but a reasonable compensation, for hon-
est and faithful labor should be pro-
vided. .

THE DEGREES.

Some worthy members of our Order
are asking that all the higher degrees
be abolished, thinking that they confer
special privileges, upon those who re-
ceive them, and thus create an aristoc-
racy in the Order. This is an illusion.
The degrees are only honorary and in-
tended in a smgill d_egree to encourage
and develop the noble God-given prin-
ciple in the human mind, described by
the word Exciiision, the exercise of
which has removed man from the brute
creation, and nations from barbarism
to the highest degree of civilization.
The beautiful and instructive lessons
of the degrees, are well calculated to
inspire and elevate. Every fourth de-
gree member can attend all the busi-

ness sessions of the Pomona, State and ‘

National Granges, and by the action
of the National Grange, at its recent
session, it is intended to make all the
degrees accessible to every member of
the Order, as rewards for faithful labor.

In conclusion let me congratulate
you upon the unequaled prosperity of
our Order, not only in this State, but
throughout our whole country. The
work of organization in most of the
States is nearly completed, and the
Order is settling down to practical,
earnest work. The social and educa-
tional benefits, realized by members of
the Order, cannot be estimated by dol-
lars and cents; and the amount saved
through the operations of the business
agencies, amounting in the aggregate
to $25,000,000 annually, will indicate
something of the pecuniary benefits.rc-
ceived by them. The outlook is most

cheering, and should inspire us with ‘

renewed confidence, in the ultimate
triumph of our noble cause. In our
Order all power is in the Subordinate
Granges, and whatever they demand
must be granted. We, as their chos-
en representatives, must labor for their
interests. If we fail to do this, we
shall be unworthy the confidence re-
posed in us. I am aware there are
worthy members in our Order who ask
for randical changes in our organic
law. That there are errors and imper-
fections, cannot be doubted, but time
and experience will correct them. No

changes should be made without due
consideration; and in recommending
changes, the utmost caution should be
exercised. The bridge that has car-
ried us safely over, can be trusted, and
he who would destroy it, should meas-
ure well the chasm, before he attempts
to leap it. J. J. Wooniisn,
Master.

 

Secretat-y’s Report.
W07-671,7 xlfaster mul Patrons .-

To you, the Patrons of the State, I
present for the third time my annual
report of the business with which you
have entrusted me.

A by-law of the State Grange re-
quires me to act under the direction
of the Master and Executive Commit-
tee. It therefore seems in order to re-
fer to some of the duties with which
I have been charged by the Commit-
tee,

At its second meeting in February

last, at Lansing, preliminary steps
were taken to have the State Grange
incorporated. By direction of the
Executive Committee, Judge Howell:
of Adrian, was employed to draft an
Act for the Incorporation of the State,
County and Subordinate Granges,
which, when done, was examined by
the Executive Committee, received its
approval, and, in due time, by legisla-
tive enactment oii the 8th of April,
became a law. Judge Howell also
drafted Articles of Association for the
State, County, and subordinate
Granges, and. as soon as practicable,
the State Grange was incorporated, in
compliance with the law.
. I prepared and had printed blank
Articles of Association for subordinate
Granges, with a copy of Charter
granted by the National Grange at-
tached, for the incorporation of sub-
ordinate Granges, and have furnished
such blanks on application.

To what extent such incorporation
has been perfected under the law I
am not able to determine. And I
would recommend that subordinate
Granges be required to send a certi-
fied statement of the fact and date of
incorporation to the Secretary of the
State Grange, and that the Secretary
be required to file and preserve such
certificate.

As the Act of Incorporation makes
it necessary that a copy of the Char-
ter issued by the National Grange be
attached to the Articles of Associa-
tion, and as Charters of Pomona
Granges under the authority of the
National Grange, must issue from the
State Grange, it was found that, under
the Act of Incorporation as we find it,
Pomona. Granges could not become
incorporated.

This is unfortunate, as it is expect-
ed that Pomona Granges will take the
place of County Councils in the busi-
iiess department of the Order, and it
is very desirable that they have a
recognized legal existence.

BY order of the Executive Commit-
tee,_your Secretary was required, in
COI1_]l1I1ClZ10!1 with the Master of the
State Grange, to issue a monthly cir-
011131‘; and mail a copy to each Master
and Secretary of the Granges in the
State. _Wh1ch requirement has been
S30IIlPl1ed.W1i-ll, the first number hav-
lng been issued in April last‘ It was
first offered to subscribers at 50 cents,

 

 

  

 

 


 

 

and afterwards at 40 cents per an-
nnm. We have made no effort to se-
cure subscribers, and of the 540 names
on our books the time of one-half will
expire with the December number.

The make up, management, and dis-
tribution of the sheet having been
mainly committed to me, it seems
necessary and proper that I make a
statement of its financial relation to
the State Grange Treasury—-all the
more 11 e c e s s a ry as apprehensions
were expressed S ta te T r e a s-
ury, not yet plethoric, was about to
be depleted by the agents of the Ex-
ecutive Committee, in direct violation
of the expressed wishes of the State
Grange. In answer to this I would
simply refer to the report made to the
Executive Committee, as found in the
August number of the VISITOR. We
have excluded from the VISITOR every
thing not directly relating to subjects
of interest to the Order, and beyond
this it has been in no sense a news-
paper. Eight numbers have been is-
sued, of 2000 copies each. Over 1350
copies (with postage paid) of each is-
sue have been sent to Masters and Sec-
retaries of subordinate Granges, Mas-
ters and Secretaries of State Granges,
and to exchanges, without any cash
return whatever.

We have received from adver-

 

tisers .. .    . $20138
And from subscribers . . . . . . . . . 155 73 g
Total receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $357 11
Have paid for printing. . . . . . . $248 00
Postage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 08
Wrapping paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 00
Extra help, folding, mailing, &c 5 25
My actual expenses . . . . . . . . . . 20 25
Total expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $306 58

Leaving a balance over expen-

ditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $50 53

As the Worthy Master has given
this subject all the attention it de-
serves, we shall only add, that in what
we have done we know of no motive
or act to which We do not invite the
closest scrutiny of every good Patron ,'
and though the monthly publication
and distribution of this sheet, small as
it is, added very much to our labor,
yet, without one word of complaint,
we shall cheerfully acquiesce in what-
ever disposition the State Grange may
make of this whole subject.

At the meeting of the Executive
Committee, at Battle Creek, I was di-
rected to prepare blank orders for
Plaster, and send to all Grange Secre-
taries and ask them to canvass their
several Granges, procure orders, and
return the same to me. Orders have
been so returned prior_to the 1st inst.,
amounting to 5571 tons. I have made
a short record of the same, and for-
warded, from time to time, the orders
to Brother VVeston. With the orders
came very many letters of assurance
that Bro. Weston will be sustained,
no matter how much the Plaster As-
sociation may cut down the price.

We have just been notified by Bro.
Weston that he will be prepared to fill
orders by the 15th of January next.

The Committee ordered balances
due the Masters of Granges N o. 13,
19, 31. and 139, for attendance at the
State Grange session of 1874, to be
paid, and orders to the amount of $34-
.24 were drawn on the State Treasur-
er for that purpose,

We were also directed to draw or-

ders on the Treasurers of the several
subordinate Granges whose Masters
and their wives were in attendance at
the last session of the Stite Grange, in
payment of the per diem'-and mileage
of such members. The total amount
of these orders issued is $5381.60, and
there has been returned in payment
of fees and dues to the amount of
$2554.20. Of the outstanding orders
for 32827.40 the fees and dues of three,
and in some instances four quarters,
have been endorsed. And we are of
the opinion that the fees and dues of
the current quarter will cancel nearly
all these orders.

VVe would respectfully recommend
that the State Grange authorize the
payment by orders on the State Treas-
urer, of whatever balances may be due
on the Masters orders after the pay-
ment of the fees and dues of this quar-
ter have been endorsed thereon. Such
payment to be made only when Secre-
taries’ reports have been made in full
for the year 1875.

As required by the State Grange at
its last session, I have collected from
the administrator of the estate of D.
13. Hull, first Treasurer of the State
Grange, the balance in his hands at
the time of his death, amounting to
$1,160, and paid the same over to the
State Treasurer.

Vife have also received from J. J.
Robison, second Treasurer of the State
Grange, and paid to State Treasurer
Brown, $151.58, the balance in his
hands on settlement.

The expense account of my oflice
has been, since, Jan. 1st:

 
  

For postage ______________________________ -_ 3259 71
“ blank books ________________________ __ 15 90
“ printing, blanks and - 1tionery--__ 211 95
“ office furniture 61 68
“ “ rent ____ -- ___ ___ 23 00
“ clerk hire ___________________________ __ 76 20
“ miscellaneous expense account --.._ 135 55

Total ____________________________ __ $783 99

The last item includes telegraph-
ing, traveling, and all my expense at-
tending the incorporation of the State
Grange and the publication of the
Vrsrros.

My account with the State Grange
shows since Jan. 1st an indebtedness:
To fees and dues received to Dec. 1st--- %289 14

so 00

“ fees of special deputies _____________ -_
:: am’t received of estate of D. B. Hull 116000

J. J. Robinson_____ 151 58
“ “ “ E. R. Shankland__- 200 00
“ “ “ J. S. Thomas _____ __ 2.5 00

“ " “ Advertisers in the
VISITOR ________ -_ 201 33

“ “ “ Subscribers to ‘the
VISITOR ________ __ 1:33 73

“ balance received from supply acc‘t_ :74 78
" fees from Pomona Gr-anges ________ -_ 30 00

Total ___________________________ - 3&337 61
CREDIT:

By Ledger Balance _____________________ __ $6 80

“ am’t on settlement with A. Sessons 32 00

2‘ cash returned to Palo Grange _____ __ 8 02
“ amount of ’1‘reasurer’s rec-eipts_--__ $8490 19
Total __________________________ __ $3537 61

An itemized statement of account,
with vouchers for all expenditures,
and the books of our ofiice. have been
submitted to the Executive Commit-
tee for examination.

It will be remembered that an ap-
peal tor aid was made a year ago by
Patrons of Kansas and Nebraska, and
that in answer to that appeal Worthy
Master Brown issued a. circular to the
Patrons of Michigan, asking them to
forward their contributions directly
to the Masters of those State Granges
or to me, as the donors might prefer.
In response to that circular, between
the 23d of December, 1874, and the
17th day of‘ May, 1875, I received

$1157.73. Of this amount, $307.50
was sent to VVm. B. Porter, Master of
the State Grange of Nebraska, and the
remainder, by direction of the Execu-
tive Committee, was sent to John G.
Otis, State agent of Kansas—vouchers
for which amounts I hold.

As soon as rules and regulations for
their organization had been adopted,
we prepared and had printed the ne-
cessary blanks for the organization of
Pomona Granges, together with quar-
terly reports of Secretaries, and such
certificates of election, credentials,
and other blank forms as seemed
necessary for the successful working
of the machinery of’ that organiza-
tion. These blanks have been fur-
nished on application, without charge.

The Executive Committee author-
ized the printing of 10,000 copies of
By-Laws of the last session. We had
2,300 printed, and as the’ demand has
been very light, this supply has been
ample.

lVhile subordinate Grange Secreta-
ries have not all attended to their du-
ties as well as We could wish, yet in
making reports there has been a
marked improvement within the last
six weeks.

As the winter, with its comparative
leisure for farmers, is before us, I an-
ticipate more frequent meetings and a
better attendance, will stimulate the
officers and members, and that a few
months hence a much better showing
might be made than the one we now
offer.

Of the 611 Granges in this jurisdic-
tion that have received dispensations
from the National Grange, we find, on
the first inst., 443 were fully report-
ed ; 82 were delinquent in reports for
one quarter, 32 for two quarters, 18
for three quarters, 7 for four quarters,
2 for five quarters, 5 for six quarters.
Nos. 216 and 451 have never report-
ed, and No. 258 has formally surren-
dered its charter. From the remain-
ing 13 lately organized no reports are
yet due. Those delinquent for one
and two quarters will, without doubt,
nearly all report before the 1st of
January.

The membership of the order in the
State, as near as we can determine
from reports received, was, on the
30th of Sept., 34,275.

We have given the business com-
mitted to us, our undivided attention
during the past year, and though the
circulation of the VISITOR has some-
what diminished our correspondence,
yet new questions are constantly aris-
ieg, and new lines of labor seem to
open up before us.

In many things we are called on to
do, we are without precedent to fol-
low, or the light of experience to
guide us, and do not expect to show
as complete work as under more fav-
orable circumstances. We are more
and more impressed with the import-
ant truth that the enterprise in which
we are engaged is of'vast proportions,
and that its development will require
a period of time that the many have
failed yet to understand. In the bus-
iness department of the Order we see
that a community of men and women
are really but grown up children, and
can no more, on the presentation of a
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give it practi-:»al application in all its
completeness, than children. can ac-
quire a thorough education in a few
short weeks.

The farmers of our country have
presented to them a p1aIl_01‘ system by
which through organization immense
social,’ educational and inaterial bene-
fits are promised, but to realize these
good results willdrequirle time and pert:
sistent effort an invo ve experimen
and failure biafore these several objects
are accomplished facts.

In conclusion, permit me to say that
the courteous and friendly character
of the extensive correspondence with
subordinate Granges of our own
State and Patrons elsewhere, is to me
a tokie-n of good will and kindly re-
rrard for which I feel truly grateful-
zffords cheering proof of the fraternal
feeling which prevails in our Order,
and eucourarrcs me in the discharcre 0
those oflicial duties which devblve
upon me.

J. T. COBB, Sccrclary.

—Mr. E, V. Neale, of London, one
of the pioneers of co-operation in
England, in his remarks at a meeting
in St. Louis, gave a detailed account
of the Rochdale system, explaining it
fully as he proceeded. He said one
great advantage the Rochdale system
of co-operation possessed over the
system of buying at wholesale and dis-
tributing to customers at cost, was,
that it prbvided for the steady and
constant increase of capital and did
not interfere with the existing system
of doing business, and therefore cre-
ated no antagonism. Another advan-
tage was, it constituted a sort of sav-
ings bank in which the profits of the
business in connection with the in-
terest allowed on each share would
go to increase its value and thus be-
come a permanent investment for the
benefit of the younger members of
the family.

How Nor TO DO ir.—A gentleman
interested in the manufacture of one
of the machines most in demand by
the farmers at the present day, in-
formed us that it cost the company more
to sell the goods than it dial to ma/.-c
them. In other words, farmers were
paying nearly twice as much for their
machinery as they need to do if the
"Territorial Agency” system was
abolished; and yet how many who
read this article have this present sea-
son bought their goods of these very
“Territorials,” instead of our State
Grange Agents. This is what we may
very properly call “How not to do it.”
—— Wis. S/ate Gram/c Bulletin.

——Money is diflicult to get at nine
per cent on farm mortgages, whilst
the farm itself only pays. about three
per cent. The number of loan socie-
ties, building societies, banks, etc ,
and the dividends they declare, is a
fair indication of the profits of money
lending. This state of things should
arouse our Patrons to grapple with
the financial d fficulties, and ask them-
selves the question, how long it will
be before they are all bankrupt, and
their land in the hands of large mo-
nopolies ?- Utinada 001'. Pafrons’ Help-
er.

State G1-n.ng’e Revenues-
QY WORTHY MASTER A. B. SMEDLEY.

The revenues of the state grange
are derived as stated in a former arti-
cle, from the fee of one dollar for each
male, and fifty cents for each female
initiated and passed to higher de-
grees, and the annual due of twenty-
four cents for each member, paid by
the subordinate grange out of its rev-
enues as fixed by the constitution.—
From the money derived from this
source the state grange must pay, first
the dues to the National Grange; sec-
ond, the expenses of the state grange
annual session (which, until quite re-
cently, owing to the very large num-
ber of representatives, has been very
heavy,) the salaries of those oflicers
who devote their Whole time to the
work, the large printing and postage
account which this amount of busi-
ness necessitates, rents, fuel, clerk
hire and the expense incurred in the
co-operative and business arm of the
work. This latter expense, in many
states, has been very large, from the
fact that at first the whole business
relations of the members of the Or-
der had to be in a measure changed,
and second, because it was found nec-
essary to pay the expense of this work
from the state treasury, for the pnr5
pose of gaining the confidence of the
patrons and topinduce them to take
hold of the work with that unity of
action which could alone insure suc-
cess.

Some states undertook, in the be-
ginning, to make their business agen-
cies self-sustaining by charging a com-
mission on sales and purchases. As
a rule, however, this plan has failed
to meet the approval of the Order.-—
“To are so prone to be suspicions, that
it was only by guarding, with the
most vigilent care, every possible
chance where anything might trans-
pire to create a loss of confidence,
that it was possible to succeed.

Hence, while in Iowa, and in some
other states, this branch of the work
has been expensive to the state
grange, yet no money has ever been
expended in the Order which has
brought such satisfactory returns.

Some few State granges, singularly
enough, refused to reduce their rep-
resentation, even when‘the whole in-
Come of the state grange was insuffi-
cient to pay the expenses of the an-
nual session. Nearly all, however,
have now so changed their constitu-
tions that the masters of subordinate
granges select certain of their num-
ber to represent them in the state
grange, thus relieving the treasury of
a large and heavy burden. VVhile new
members were rapidly joining, the in-
come derived from this source was
ample for the needs of the state
graiige. But when nearly the whole
farming population had become pat-
rons, and the supply from this source
was as a consequence materially di-
minished, it became a serious ques-
tion how the state grange was to ac-
complish the work expected of it with
the revenue derived from dues alone.
It has only been by the most careful
economy (at times almost approaching
pars_imony,) that the work has been
carried forward to that degree of suc-
cess which it has attained. A promi-
inent banker in this state, after com-

plimenting the ofiicers on the prompt-
ness of all their business transactions,
remarked, ‘-I wish you gentlemen
would show me how to accomplish the
amount of business and carry forward
so great a work with so meagre an in-
come.” How an organization of the
magnitude of the Iowa State Grange,
with all its different. departments,
reaching out into every county in the
state, and attaining such grand results
as it has, has been carried forward in
all its ramifications, paid the expen-
ses of its annual session and its dues
to the National Grange, on a yearly
contribution of twenty-four cents from
each member only, might well puzzle
the sharpest financier. But it has
been done, and will no doubt be done
in the future. The annual dues to
the National Grange, and the fact that
under a more judicious management,
and more harmonious relations with
manufacturers, the business agencies
are becoming in some degree self-
supporting, tends to encouragement.

Our brothers on the Pacific Coast
have a quicker way of tiding over any
financial difiiculty than any we have
ever adopted. While in the begin-
ning they made the dues much larger
than ours, both to state and subordi-
nate granges, yet when it becomes ne-
cessary to carry forward any measure
for the general good, (measures which
have placed them in the front rank of
this reform movement,) each individ-
ual at the call of the executive com-
mittee quietly and cheerfully furnish-
es his propoation of the amount
needed.

But our brothers and sisters of the
coast are, by habits of business and
custom, different from us. We are
conservative and cautions. Perhaps
if we could be stimulated by a little
of their zeal, and they receive a little
of our conservatism, we might both be
nearer the golden mean. Neverthe-
less, their zeal and enterprise have
carried the work forward there to the
Wonder and admiration of the whole
world.

No people recognize more fully and
clearly than our brothers in Califor-
nia and Oregon, that to make money,
save money, or to reach great results,
affecting the general good, money
must be used, while we of the north
and west are rather apt to be more
ready to reap and share benefits than
we are to use the means by which,
alone, these benefits can be secured.

We can but conclude, on looking over i

the whole subject, that the constitu-
tional contributions of each member,
to both subordinate and especially
the State Grange, are very small when
compared with the results expected to
be accomplished, and the wonder is
how much has been done with so little
money. We have never heard a. word
of complaint from individual members
or others of the masonic fraternity,
and yet, while their grand lodge sim-
ply aims to provide for the executive
and clerical department, yet their in-
come derived from each individual
rnembea and each subordinate organ-
ization. is several times greater than
IS that of the state grange; but the
State grange must in addition, look
after and provide for a much wider
range of interests.

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prominent as an oflicer in the Illinois
State Farmers’ Clubs, I asked why it
is that with so many organizations as
you have, and formerly had, you have
hever been ab1e_to produce more wide
spread and manifest results? His re-
ply was promptly made, “Simply be-
cause we had no financial system and
no money. ln this utilitarian age
moral power and money are both
needed to achieve great and good re-
sults,” and, he added, “you grangers
have made a long step in advance of
us in this direction; but you will ulti-
mately find that even you have too
narrow and penurious a financiai sys-
tem, and as small as it is, some of
your people, even now, think it bur-
densome.”

Experience, however, has demon-
strated that a vast Work can be done
with 3, limited amount of means if on-
ly Wisely, faithfully, and generously
administered. That this has been
the case with the funds of the state
grange, the good done, the work ac-
complished, speaks abundantly.

Every patron should carefully, each
year, look over the reports of the dif-
ferent oflicers, the reports of the sev-
eral committees to whom these mat-
ters are referred, the quarterly state-
ments of the executive committee, and
if he finks anything worthy of com-
nt-endation, let him not be too chary
of a word of encouragement to those
who serve us faithfully, and if he finds
an evidence of bad judgment, let him
not hesitate, in a fraternal Way, to
give his views and point out the error.
We should never forget that the Or-
der is a family, and in all our relations
to it and with it, act in accordance
with this fact.
\Vlnat Real Co-operation did for

those who Practiced it.

In November of last year, at the
opening of the pork packing season,
the packers at Cincinnati combined
and determined to put the market
price of hogs at the lowest possible
figures, and, after 40,000 head of hogs
had been delivered in the pens of Cov-
ington and Cincinnati, the packers
would make no ofi'ers nor buy a hog,
but intimated that they might give $5
per hundred pounds. Had the “feel-
er” been “jumped at,” those who put
it out would probably have withdrawn
it and made a still lower bid. The
farmers, however, knew their hogs to
be worth at least two cents more than
that, and, under the leadership of S.
VV. Hudson, president of the district

council, representing granges in por- 
tions of Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, '

they determined to take nothing less
than $7,50 per hundred. If they could
not get that they would pack their
own hogs. The money ring stood ve-
ry firm, but the farmers were made of
a difierent sort of stuff from some we
know of, who desert their brethren
just when success is about to crown
their efforts. They had gone in for
co-operation—wo1-king and sticking
together—and they were determined
to hold to their first intentions, let it
lead to profit or loss. Such glorious
co-operation was bound to win. The
packers held out a week, by which
time they began to think that the far-
mers really had a “corner” on the
hog market, and that if they did not

' relating to the deceased :

give $7,50 they would have to shut up
their pork-packing establishments.——
So in one evening they bought the J
whole stock of 40,000 head at $7,50 
per hundred pounds. The farmers
thus made a. clean gain of $2,530 per *
hundred pounds on about 12,000,000 3
pounds, or the enormous total gain of =
$300,000. This gain would have been =
to the other side had the farmers *
been less true to their bargains with f
each other. One farmer could have
spoiled the whole matter by ol'fe1'ing 
to sell his hogs at less tl an the high- 1
est price asked. He could have jus- Q
tified himself, as the whiners general- i
ly do, by saying that he was afraid I
that they would not get $7.50, and he 
thought it would be better to take 1.
less rather than hold out longer on 1
expense. - \Ve are afraid that some of ;
our Arkansas patrons would have f
been sure to act in this way. Already 
we are all reaping many advantages f
from the Order, and could reap much ,
more if we would earnestly co—opex-ate,
and already we find so-called patrons
ready to abandon the Order and re-
turn to the old unprotected style of,
farming. Our system is not perfect. 2
nor can it be made so without real
co-operation among patrons, but we
can point out vast benefits which ev-
ery farmer has gained by it. The
one article of cotton ties is an item of
great saving eifected by our organiz-
ation. Nearly one-half has the price
been reduced. Let the Order die
out and the former high rate would 5
probably be resumed. It will not suii 3
fice for us to have our names on tlie _‘
books; that is not union of strength, i
it is merely union of names. ‘Ne want
union of heads, hands, hearts and
work; names will do nothing for us.
Brethren, We must learn to stick to- '
gether through “thick and thin.”—-
\Ve must do this, or else we will lose 
the respect of those who deal with us, ;
and we will gain nothing by our or- ;’
ganization. If we establish stores we ‘
must deal with them, and not with
those who are temporarily under-sel1-
ing our houses merely to break them
down, when prices will immediately
rise again. Concentrate your means
on the house of your own building;
do not fritter them away for the ben-
efit of your enemies. Take pattern
after your brethren at Cincinnati, and
be real, consistent, true co-operators.
——-Arlcansas TVce7cZ3/ Gram/e.

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Qantmunicafiarts.

SALEM, Oct. 29th, 1875.

Please publish these resolutions in
THE GRANGE VISITOR:

WORTHY MASTER :—-Your commit-
tee would respectfully ask leave to
report the following resolutions:

VVHEREAS, It has pleased God in
His wisdom to call from her earthly
relations and labors, our much res-
pected and beloved Sister, M. E.
Knapp. Therefore,

Resolved, That we the officers and
members of Salem Grange, unite in
expressing the following sentiments

1. That our departed Sister has en-
dured her protracted illness and suf-
fering with much patience, christian
fortitude and resignation, thereby

evincing her firm trust in God, and
faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. ~

‘.3. That in the death of our Sister,
a devoted member of this Grange, we
are painfully conscious of having sus-
tained a very great loss.

8. That we will endeavor to remem-
ber and emulate the virtues of her
life, and accept her death as an ad-
monition to a more serious considera-
tion of our'own frailty, and also as an
incentive to cherish and perpetuate a
growing social friendship. :1 more vi-
tal christian affection, €Li.d a stronger
bond of li'.:te1'11nl union among our-
selves.

4. That we deeply sympathize with
our dear'l3rother, the companion of
the deceased, and his family, in their
bereavement, sorrow and loneliness.

5. That a copy of these resolution be
placed in the hands of our afflicted
Brother, M. E. Knapp.

llespectf11lly' submitted by

H. G. Wannlcu,
iev. JAMES VVEL1..~',
R. M. SI.\.l.\IONS,
D. 1) Coo.'~:, Sec’y, Committee.
Salem Grange, No. 470.

The i'ollowing resolutions were ad-
opted by the Allcgan County Con-
vention:

Resolved, 'l‘h:1t it is the desire of
this Convention to instruct its dele-
gates to use their vote and influence
lor the purpose o1'—

lst. To have all degrees above the
fourth abolished.

2d. To have delegates to the State
and National Granges elected by and
from among the people, and not by

_ virtue of oflice.

3d. To so altar our Constitution as

,to make the minimum initiation fee

for males $5.00, and for females $2.00,
also the amount of quarterly dues be
reduced to 25 cents per quarter.

G. ‘V. GRIGSBY, Secy.

A Baltimore servant girl the other
morning tried that good old time-
honored plan of ligliting the kitchen
fire with kerosene. Nothing has
benzine of her since.

5/? Subscriptions to the M1011-
IGAN TEACHER.——beSl3 schooljournal
in the State——will be received until
Jan. 1 at the low rate of one dollar
a year. Sample numbers, 10 cts.
Address H. A. FORD, Kalamazoo.

GIEANGE SEALS! 0

VVe are furnishing SEALS in BEST LEVER
PRESS, at $3.00, $4.00 or $5.00 Each.

En._(]ravving done by lVo7*lmze7z of Large
E.rpe-rience.

Our $3.00 Seal has a. fine design of Plow,
Sheaf of \Vheat, «lac. The higher priced Seals
are a little larger, with more engraving.

_Wep1'e-pay Express Charges on $4.00 and
$0.00 Seals. ~

T. J. CROWE 85 CO.,
TOLEDO, OHIO.

anal of .ll1l‘lSDl‘l1IlBl1BB
Ma11tlcu—o11eraI1'un of the .01? H.

By A. B. Smedley, Master of Iowa. State Grange,
Published b Geo. Wm. Jones office of Patron’s
Helper, Des oines, Iowa. 200 pages, bound in
cloth. By mail, postage prepaid, 81,25 per copy;
by express or freight, in packages of five or
more, $1.00 per copy. Deputies and llaaters
are earnestly requested to call the attention of
their respective Granges to this book. Send for
prospectus. Sold by J. T. COBB, State See‘.

75 Mormon STREET,

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‘ keep accounts with members, . . . . . . . . . . l 00

PRICE LIST l

?OF__ .‘
SS I3']’]E’:ln § §A:s$
Kept in the ofilce oftlic Secretary of 

Michigan State Grange! 

And sent out 1"‘/'«::c of I,’/:1.-r;/r. u-s :’Z«rr~'[:' ‘
of Cash 07‘d<"/', obm‘ I’/H: i$.'c.!/ of u
Sub':ra’£natc (r'7’l.l/III/1’, and #1::
S4}/nature Q/"its .l.’u.-(«r or

Sec7'eta7;.y. .
Ballot Boxes, (hard wcod,) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .:3l 2:]
Porcelain Ballot Marbles, per hundred,. . . 60

Blank Book, ledger ruled, for Secretary to

Order Book, containing 100 0r(ler.=. on the
Treasurer, with stub,.well hound, . . . . . . {)0
Receipt Book, containing 100 Receipts
from Treasurer to Secretary, with stub,

     

well bound, . . . . . . . . . .. .
Cushing’s Manual, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. L‘-0 ‘
Applications for Membership, per 1U0,.. . 50 
Membership Cards, per 100, . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34) l
Blank Receipts for dues, per 100, . . . . . . . . . 40 
Withclrawal Cards, per doz., . . . . . . . . . . .. 25 I
Illustrated Visiting or Traveling Cards,

each, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 05 ’
Dimits, in envelopes, per (loz., . . . . . . . . . . . 25
By-Laws of the State and Subordinate |

Granges,perdoz.,..................... 5:0
Singing Books, with music, one copy, pa- .

per cover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l l
Singing Books, with music, per dcz .. . . 1 00 I
Rituals, single copy, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . .. L) J

“ per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. l 50 I
Patrons‘ Monitor, by Smedley, . . . _ . . . . . .. ‘.25 !
Blanks for Consolidation of Granges, sent l

free on application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Blank Applications for Organizing Poino- E
rnona Granges, sent free on application. i
Blank Orders for use of Granges or Pur- E
chasing Agents, per doz., 10 cts, per 100, 50 l
Blank “Articles of Association” for the =
Incorporation of Subordinate Grauges

with Copy of Charter, all complete,. . . . . 10
Blank Bonds for Secretary and Treasurer,

each, per set, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 05
Manual of Jurisprudence and Co-operation,

by A. B. Smedly, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L25

P-atron’s Pocket Companion, by J. A. Cra-
mer, Cloth, 60 cts., Moraeco with tuck, . 1 00
Address, J. '1‘. COBB,
SEC’Y MICE. STATE GRANGE,
SCI-IOOLCRAFT, MICI-I.

A. J. THOMPSON 85 co,

Successors to THOMPSON & BENSON,

GENERAL

COMMISSION l

MERCHANTS, 
192 So. Water Street, y
CHICAGO.

R E F E B. E N C E S :
J. J. Murpliy, Cashier,
. First National Bank, \Voodstock.
Hall, Patterson <5: Co., Union Stock Yards,

Chicago.
H. T. Ellott & Co., Chicago.
Spencer Day, Des Moines, Iowa.
Herman Schaifner, Cashier,
_ _ German Nat. Bank, Chicago.
L. G. Knifl‘en, Wis., State Purchasing;Ag’t,
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N .u. State Crzm;f,e.P. of  & Councvi, S. otl;
will buy any thing in N. Y. market, fr0m_fi>!{:s“E;
’m3nds, for any Grange or Councilin U. S-_O'lf-

     
    
 

  

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Uf.'.i, no-,{er receives ixncz-2-1;:-:>ro'\":es goods.»
“ Tc-as 2: Specialty. Coyvignission, 2 per cent
3 per cent on less,

     
 

     

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ORANGE SUPPLY HOUSE.

Chicago,

Drylioods
CLOTHING
Til}?
CAPS
NOTIONS

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unrnr W. Anms, Master National Grange.
H. Kannar, Secretary National Grange.

R. SHANKLAND, Ex. Com. Nat. Grange.

XI. THOMAS, Sec. Penna. State Grange.

W. MILLER, Sec. Ohio State Grange.

M. Moomr, Sec. Ind. State Grange.

. Conn, Sec. Mich. State Grange.

. FANNINO, Sec. 11]. State Grange.

. Fnnw. Business Agent. 111. State Grange.
. B. SMEDLEY, Master Iowa State Grange.

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AND WILL SELL T ‘
Patrons or Husbandry, Farmers and Mechanics at Wholesale Prices.

We are the ORIGINAL GRANGE SUPPLY HOUSE. We have the largest Store and the
largest Stock of the best Goods kept by any house in the world, devoted to supplying the Consu-
mer direct. Catalogues and Price Lists with instructions sent by mail free to any address upon
application.

BOOTS
SHOES
HER
TRUNKS
ETC. ETC.

REFERENCES.

SPENCER DAY, Business Agent Iowa State Grange.
P. B. Msxsort Sec. Kansas State Grange.

Jim. G. Oris, Bus. A ent Kansas State Grange.
Taos. T. Smrn. Sec. inn. St to Grange.

A. M. COFFBY, Sec. Missouri tate Grange.

Wm. B. PORTER, Master Nebraska State Grange.
H. E. HUXLEY, Sec. Wisconsin State Grange.

J. H. Sinrn. Sec. Oregon State Grange.

P. M. HINMAN, Sec. Colorado State Grange.
Commincuu. LOAN Co., Bankers, Chicago, 111.

Please call and see us when in the city. Just over State street bridge.
MONTGOMERY WARD & 00., 246 to 254 Kinzie St., Chicago.

THE !

I I I ‘
Whitney Sewing Machine.
—— 1

THE' 1’1ONEE1i MA CIIINE',

To recognize and adopt the Grange Plan of
bringing the CONSUMER and PRODUCER in
close business relations —dispensing with ex-
pensive agencies——-and giving the purchaser the
benefit of wholesale prices.

We have pleasure in saying that the most
prominent members of the Order have heartily
approved and recommended our plan, while
State, County and Grange Committees have ex-
amined, tested and approved, and warmly com-
mended the high character and excellence of
the VVhitney Machine. ‘V6 have already sup-
plied thousands of Patrons with the Machines,
which are giving unqualified satisfaction.

MACHINES SENT TO ‘PATRONS
ON 20 DAYS TRIAL.

For Price List and Information address your
State or County Purchasing Agents, or

THE VVHITNEY MF’G C().,
. CHICAGO. ILL.

Lane Manufacturing Co.,
508, FIFTH STREET, N. W’.
was HINGTON. D. 0.,
Dealers in
Regalia, Jewels,
smrr MOUNTINGS,
VVREATHS FOR LADY OFFICERS, BAN—
NERS, BIBLES, CUSI-IING’S MANUAL,

ALL KINDS OF GRAN GE BLANKS,
GRANGE LETTER AND NOTE

PAPER.
Materials for regalia by the yard or piece. p
Golden Sickle brand of unbleached cotton.
ts’.-ails Furnished from $2.80 Plain,
to $7.00 1'}labm'ate.

@Please send for Price List, as (Very arti- .

‘ole is furnished at the lowest price.

“THE FABMEOS Fllltllll.”

The great Grange paper.

The farmers’ own journal.

500 farmers write for it.

60 farmers’ wives write for it.

Circulates in thirty-six States.

Circulates in six Territoroies.

Circulates in Canada.

Sixty-four columns every week.

Sixteen pages of reading.

Kept on file in 1,200 Granges.

Read weekly by over 100,000 people.

Only ofiicial organ of five State Granges.
Market reports _from the great cities.

Practical experience by practical farmers.
Crop reports printed weekly.

N o middlemen agents.

$1.50 a year; or $125 in clubs of 8 or over.
Postage always prepaid by publishers,

12;: cents a month to the close of any year.

In clubs of 8 or over, 10; cents a month.
Neatly printed; “ big type ;” good paper.
National Grange ofiicers write for it.

Grange news from every State.

Farmers are delighted with it, and say,

“ Just what we have wanted.”

Samples sent free _and sent directly from the

Grange Steam Printing House of five States.
Address, THOMAS db DEMMING,
MECHANICSBURG, PA.

P. ]?-C

The
COMPANION.

Is endorsed by the prominent men of the Order

throughout the U. S. as
":3. LITTLE (}ED£'[,”

“I/ze book for an Order,”—“ most excellent,”
~—“ work of much merit,”—— “great service to the
01'd61‘.”—“va1uable little work.”-—“meets a long
felt Want,” &c., &c.
Granges or Clubs supplied at reduced rates.
Price, 3 1.00 Morroco, Gilt; 60c Cloth.
Send for descriptive circular. Apply to J. T.
Conn, Secy State Grange, orto
R. W, CARROLL & C0.,
Pubfmhers, Cincinnati, “-

 

 

  

Pa.tron’s Pocket


Supplement to Visitor, December, 1875.

vgasteis gepartment.

J. J. WOODMAN, - - — PAW PAVV.

The following was omitted in the ;
Master's address to the State Grange, Q

as printed in this number. '
CENTENNIAL, 1876.

It is proposed to celebrate the one
hundredth anniversary of our nation’s
birthday at Philadelphia, in :3. becom- j
ing manner; and all the States of the ‘
Union, and nations of the earth, have :
‘been invited to unite in :1 grand In- ’
ternatioiial Exhibition. As represen-
tatives of the agricultural interests of 1
Michigan, it seems proper that we
should give such countenance, aid and
support to the enterprise, as the im-
portance of the occasion may demand.

“ Michigan will be seen, examined l
and judged there with her sister states
of the union. and forty years of her I
history as a state, read by the world. i
The products of her soil, mines, for-
ests, factories aiid waters, her primary
schools, colleges, asylums, reforma-
tories, public works and commercial
advantages, will all be judged by the
samples exhibited, and statistical in- 3
formation furnished. I am aware that
tlier_e is but little inducement to stim- -.
ulate farmers to exhibit the products
of their farms, except state and na-
tional pride and interest; and that '
should be the most inspiring of any i
inducement, that could be offered to 
an American citizen. Another suchl
an opportunity will never be present- f
ed, to show the quality, value and’
yield of our "products, or greatness of}
our state and nation.

STATE GRANGI-2.

The State Grange has appointed =
Hon. Alonzo Sessions, of Ionia; Hon. I
Henry 'Cliambei'laiii, of Berrieii, and
Hon. C. K. Carpenter, of Oaklaiid, a
committee on Centennial Interests,
These well known gentlemen will visit 2
Philadelpliia at an early day, with the 1
view of making arrangements with R. »
R. companies for carrying members of
the Order to and from the Exhibition;
and for accommodations for members
while there.

The National Grange at its recent

session, submitted an amendment to V
the Constitution, giving each State

Grange full power to fix all fees and  duty to ask the Patrons of the State I

State Grange has passed 3 msolution  to coinelorward and subscribe for the I

to reduce the same' th' . 5-" = - -
In 18 State’ In ‘ plan as heretofore, and it receives at

liberal support, the price may perhaps ‘2
g be reduced. Until action is taken by ;

_ _ ' the Executive Committee, we can only
“ The fees for membership in a ‘

dues within its jurisdiction; and the

anticipation of the ratification of this ?

amendment by three-fourths of all the
State Granges,—as follows:

Subordinate Grange shall be $3.00 for
males and $1.00 for females. The
dues to the State Grange shall be
‘ five cents per quarter for each mem-
ber of the Subordinate Grange.’ ”

This reduction in fees and dues will
not be operative, until the Master of
the National Grange, by proclama-
tion, announces that the above amend-
ment has been ratified.

The Masters of all Subordinate
Granges that were entitled to repre-
sentation in the convention that elect-
ed delegates to the State Grange, or
have since paid up their back dues,
.are entitled to receive the Annual

M

l Word; and can obtain it, from their
l delegate to State Grange. This word
i is for the new year, and should not be
: given to the members of the Grange
 until the first meeting in January.

ggetretatfs éepartment.

‘J. 'r. coma, - - - - sciiooLcit_iF'r.-

 Ofiieers and members of Subordinate Granges

in corresponding with this office, will please
always give the Number of their Grange.

As we promised in the October

: numb r of the VISITOR to give some

reports of the Proceedings of the State

,l Grange, held at Lansing, we find it?

nece sary to add a supplement to our
r.-gular issue.
The ti:-7-zingenieizt is not just what we

would have had, but a lock-up of a;
large amount of type in the office of‘

publication, made it necessary to print
matter already set up. and distribute

the type before the Proceedings had i

all been received at the office.
By reference to the report of the

I
i We‘ had an extra. 1000 copies of the
 December number with Supplement
; printed, and while the edition lasts,
, all subscribers for 1876 will receive
1 that number free.

‘ The proceedings of the late sessions
: of the State and National Grangcs will
3 appear in future Nos. of the VISITOR.

I SECRETAR'Y’S BLANK REPOR’I‘S.—-
§ Secretary’s who need blanks lor their
5 Quarterly Reports for the current
3 quarter, will please notify me by postal
l card or otherwise, and we will supply
l the demand by return mail. As we
' sent a year's supply in March last, we
} do not expect that many will be re-
‘. quired.
The amendments to the Constitu-
 tion, proposed by the National Grange,
5 if adopted by the requisite number of
, States, will make it necessary to have
a new fnrin of blanks for -Secretary's
use. The proposed amendments will
; probably be made, and we do not wish

to fni-nish the blanks we now have only
‘ as needed for the next report. Ro-
~ ports for this rluarter .s/Iou/J not be made
§ imtil ciftnr .]'iiiiztci.r/] ist, l8'l-6.

Standing Committee on Publicationf

of the State Grange, it will be seen 3

that the GRANGE VISITOR has received
-.1 formal recognition by the State
Grange, and its cont/mm7z.ce ordered ;

to be as heretofore under the direc- 3

tion of the Executive Committee.

The endorsement by the S t a t e }
Grange. of the course pursued by the 
Executive tiominittee in this matter, I
meets our expectations. From our‘

acquaintance with the men composing
that committee, we feel jiistified in
saying that they were only solicitous
to do what they beiieved would de-
velop and strengthen the Order in this
State. The almost unanimous adop-

~ tion 0!’ the report of the Committee on
I Publication, with its recommeiida-
‘ tions, affords us‘ the most satislactti-y V

evidence that our efibrts to promote
the good oi’ the Order in this work,
have not been in vain.

The new Executive Committee have

not yet considered the recommenda- ~

tions of the Committee on Publication,

v but Will act in this matter at a meet-
. ing to be held at the Hurd House, in
. Jackson, on the second Monday in ;

I January.

As the matter now stands, we feel ’

i not only at liberty, put deem it our

VISITOR. If continued on the same

promise that it will be continued.

the expiration of their ofiicial year,
afford to become paying subscribers,
but that they will be active among the
members oi their Granges in pioeur—
ing the names of other Patrons. The
Granges in this State should take on
an average, not less than '20 copies
each.

We can only assure you that the
price will be put as near actual cost as
can be determined. In the mean time,
forward the present subscription price,
40 cents per annum.

We hope Masters and Secretaries, ;
who have heretofore received it free, I
will not only feel that they can, with ‘

BY—LAWS.——AS soon as we have time
3 to compile the By-Laws oi"the State
l Grange as amended, we shall have
1 them printed, and fill all orders sent
‘  Some of the changes are import-
: ant, and every Grange should order a
dozen or more copies.

Tin: election of three members of
the Executive Committee was made
a special order for 10 A M. Friday
.the 17th inst. The outgoing mem-
, bars were N. Chilson, of Battle Creek.
E Alonzo Sessions, of Ionia, and Samuel
5 Langdon, of Bowen Station, Kent Co.
l The ballot resulted in the election of
 G. Luce, Gilead, Branch Co.; S.
EE. Jeffers, of Okemos, Ingham Co.,
‘ and Samuel Lanegdon, re elected.

Supplies.

VVe have just received a lot of
.Blank Books for Records, just What
Secretaries of Pomona Graiiges need,
i and any other oflicer or member who
.needs a good Record Book. Office
,price, 75 cents; by mail or express,
charges pre-paid, $1,00. Members are
requested to examine List of Sup-
§ plies kept for sale in our oflice. See
3 last page of Visiroii.

ll?” For the information of the
i-representatives to the State Grange
who were authorized to communicate
the Annual Word, we shall, in the
Jan. No. give a list of Granges that
j from delinquency in reports, or pay-
.‘ ment of dues, are not entitled to re-
ceive it.

—The American. Patron, in noticing
a grand pic-nie of Patrons at Ottawa,
Oliio, says; “It was one of those pleas-
ant affairs that forces observers to ad-
mit that the social features ofJ;he Or-
, der are a success. Or, as a learned

true sociability for you. I would
rather have the friendship of people
like those we met to-day at the pic-
nic. than to be the leading light of the
most aristocratic society in the world.
One cannot help feeling that here the
welcome is genuine.”

doctor remarked that day, “There is"

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PROCEEDINGS.

Michigan State Grange in Annu- l
at Session.

|_The reports of Committees are
here printed as adopted by the State '
Grange.] .

Report of the Executive Com-
mittee.

To the xlfasfer and ./l/Iembers offlze State I
Grunge :

Your Executive Committee would ‘
respectfully submit the following re- j
port: At the first meeting, held at 1
the Morton House, in Grand Rapids, t
after the close of the State Grange in *
Jan. last, N. Chilson of Battle Creek,
was chosen as chairman, and was also .

appointed State Agent for the ensu- 3
Eng year.

The duties of the Agent, though:
not clearly-defined, were understood i
to cover any arrangement that he
might be able to make in relation to *
transportation, as well as purchases;
and sales for individual Patrons, sub-
ordinate Granges, and County C0un- 1

oils. i

The bonds of the Secretary and
Treasurer were fixed at $6,000 each, .
which were in due time executed to ‘
the satisfaction of the Committee, and
lodged with the Worthy Master for
safe keeping.

A Committee, consisting of Alonzo ]
Sessions and N. Chilson, Were ap-
pointed to examine the books and
vouchers of the Secretary, and report 1
to the Executive Committee at a sub— 
sequent meeting. The Agent was al- ;
so instructed to confer with and make .

as favorable arrangements with the ;
different transportation companies in j
the State as he could, for the ship- ,
ment of produce, lumber, salt, &c., in 1
car load lots.

On the 24th of l*‘eb., a meeting was
called at Lansing, in pursuance of a "
resolution adopted by the State 
Grange at its session in Kalamazoo,

ing the passage by the legislature of 
an act for the incorporation of State 
and Subordinate Granges. _

The Sect’y was directed to secure .=
the services of some competent attor-
ney, and take all necessary steps for 1
the incorporation of the State Grange, i
and to provide for the incorporation
of County and Subordinate Granges.
The Secretary’s report will give you
all the facts which relate to the com- ;
pletion of this work.

In the absence of any action by the ;
State Grange to determine the per ‘;
diem and mileage to which members
were entitled, tor attendance at the
last session of the State Grange, the
Secretary was directed to issue or-
ders to members on the Treasurers of
Subordinate Granges, the amount of
such order to be determined by the
data in his posession and such other
information as he could obtain. The
Committee also instructed the Secre-
tary to ask Mr. Shankland of the Ex.
Committee of the Iowa State Grange
to return certain moneys placed in

plements. We learn from the Sec’y
that the money has been returned and
paid to the State Treasurer.

The manufacturers of the- Climax
mowers and reapers ofieied to furnish

 

 their machines to Patrons at rates
 that seemed reasonable, and from the
reputation which these machines had

‘acquired, and the large orders that
1 were being made by Patrons of other
, States, your Committee were induced
, to authorize the State Purchasing
- Agent to make such arrangements as

might seem proper, for introducing
them into this State for the benefit of

Patrons. Every facility was ofleredt

by the manufacturers, to enable the

Patrons to test the machine, and sam— 1

' ples were sent to agents and members 
of the order. for that purpose. The ,

reports that came to your Committee 1

‘ agree that the mower is not excelled

by any other machine. The reaper

* with dropper attachment is equal to

satisfactory.

’ any other machine of that class, and t
;the improved self-rake has proved?

At this meeting the question of ad- :

‘ opting the plan pursued by the Ex- 5
exuiive Committee of several other’

States, viz: of issuing a Monthly Cir- I

‘ cular, to be distributed to the Granges ‘

in the State and furnished to subscrib- 

~ ers at a reasonable price, was discuss-
ed at length, and adopted. As the ,

action of the committee in this matter 

has been severely criticised in some
quarters, we would say, that all the
members were present at the meeting

except Br. Woodward, and they were ‘
unanimously of the opinion that “isuch 5

a publication would be for the good

tary were directed to act as a com-
mittee of publication, and pursuant to

the State Grange might adopt. As
some counties expressed a desire for
such organization, it became necessary
to provide for their wants. Accord-
ingly Brothers Woodman, Cobb and
Whitney were designated as a com-
mittee to prepare rules and regula-
tions for this purpose The result of
their labo1's was submitted to the
other members of the committee, by
them approved, and appeared in the
May number of the Circular.

Sec. 1, Art 3, By-Laws of Michigan
State Grange makes it incumbent on
the Executive Committee to deter-
mine the manner of electing the rep-
resentatives to the State Grange.

A meeting of the committee was
called for this purpose, at Battle-
Creek on the 6th ot August. After
discussing the matter at considerable
length, the following plan was agreed
upon:

'1 hat a convention should be held at
the County seat of each Co, or such
other place as a majority of the Mas-
ters of the Granges might agree upon.
Such convention to be held on the 26th.
day of October, and to be composed
of the Masters of the Subordinate
Granges and their wives, who were
matrons, and two fourth degree mem-
bers from each Grange, to be elected
by ballot, by the grange.

The committee made the further
provision that where one-fifth of the

‘ i granges represented in the conven-
of the Order.” ’lhe Master and Secre- i

such instruction, a Monthly Circular 1
was issued regularly until the August ‘

‘ meeting of the Committee.

At that time the Master and Secre- A

tary made a report of what they had ‘

done, which report is herewith sub-

3 mitted. The committee were unani- ‘
‘ mous in the opinion that the “Circu- i
lar” then called “ Vrsiron,” should be =

continued. and sdiordered. The com

was fully understood, all objections

tion demand it, the convention should
proceed to district the county, before
an election was held.
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DIl:‘FICUL'l‘IES MET WITH.

Your committee have not yet been
able to accomplish all that they de-
sire, and will avow that they have

failed to meet your expectations in

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the matter of business arrangements
and results. We have had to travel
in untried paths, and our limited
means and the prudence manifested

j mittee believed that when its action i in the action of the State Grange has
' in Jan. 1874, for the purpose of secur- ‘, ’

impelled us to be prudent and can-

wonld be removed, and desirous of b~.2— I tiens_ when We Consider the. means

ing so entirely right that its action
would receive the sanction of the
great mass of the brotherhood, de-

= terniined to make an effort to concili- i

ate the editor of the Em. and Cv'7‘anger,

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by a showing of the facts in the case, ~

and for that purpose they appointed
a committee consisting of Bros. Childs
and Cobb, who were instructed to vis-
it Owosso and confer with Bro. VVood

: upon the matter of difference between
them. Our committee of concilt'az’z'mt ‘

subsequently made a report, which is
herewith submitted. [See Aug. No.
of .VISITOR.] The course since pur-

sued by Mr Wood, shows conclusiVe- ‘

ly, that he was not entitled to the con-
sideration he received from us.

As no provision had been made by
the State Grange for the payment of
our Worthy Lecturer for services,
your committee, by resolution, fixed
the same at $3 ()0 per diem and actual
expenses, for the_time spent, for
which he received no compensation
from the Granges or Counties that it
became necessary to visit, in the dis.
charge of his duty.

By the action of the National
Grange in February last, County or
Pomona Grranges were authorized,

under such rules and regulations as

r

at our disposal, and the adverse cir-
cumstances that have surrounded us,
it is perhaps a matter of surprise that
we have accomplished so much,

Our rivals in busiiicss are men who
have made it the study of lihcll‘ lives,
and who can command unlimited
means; and the experience of the last
two years has taught us that we can-
not compete with them, with entire
success, with our agent working with-
0“ P33’, without money, and without
any knowledge of the amount of pat-
ronage or support he will secure from
the members ct‘ our Order.

It would be pleasant to be able to
report a better condition of trade
prospects, and a greater degree of
Success; but. when we consider that
the work of the last two years has
been a work of organization, that the
material composing the grange is not
remarkable for pliability, that it is
at this time, far from being a complete
and perfect organization, that itis not
a compact, solid body, subject to the
control of either oflicers or members,
that the methods, customs and habits,
that have grown with our growth and
Strengthened with our strength, are
not easily changed, we submit whether
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and congratulation that so much has
been accomplished.

Since August the State Purchasing
ing Agent has been permitted to use
the sum of $500 belonging to t-he State
Grange. Owing to the action of the
State Grange at its meeting at Grand
Rapids, some doubt arose in the minds
of the committee. as to the propriety
of this act, but the necessity of the
case, coupled with the fact that the
money was in the Treasury and not
in need for immediate use, seemed to
justify it.

RECO.\I)IENDATIONS.

Your committee re<pectfully rec-i

ommend that some action be taken at
your present meeting, to provide menus

to pay the State Purchasing Agent?
for his services, and also to enable‘

him to purchase in bulk. at wholesale

prices, such articles as are in constant ¥
demand, for the use of Patrons; and, l

we suggest that the money_due from
the National Grange, and the balances

that accumulate in the trea~ury of the ;‘
State Grange, over and above what is ,
needed for current expenses, might *
be used for that purpose, always re- 3
quiring ample security for the moneys 

placed in his hands.

We also recommend that Patrons:
throughout the State, Lear constantly ‘
in mind the necessity of concert of -.

action and co-operation, that they be

careful to select good and eflicientg

ofiicers, and then give them their cor-

dial confidence and support ; remem- i
‘oering always that some present 111-}

convenience or trifling sacrifice may

be necessary to produce future grand
.\". CHILSON.

Chairman EX. Com.

Report of Finance Committee.

‘To the Jllctster unrl .lI-cm/»er.< of rlliclzigan
Stale Grange:

The Committee on Finance have =

examined the books, papers, accounts

and vouchers in the oflices of the Sec- 7
State .
Grange, as fully as the limited time ‘

retary and Trcaurer of the

will permit, and we find them all in a
highly satisfactory condition.

The Secretary has received up to
the first day of December, 1875 :

Cr.

Of the estate of D. B. Hull,

late Treasurer, . . . . . . . . . .-$1,160 00
Of J. J. Robinson, 2d Treas. 286 88
For fees and dues, . . . . . . . . . 6,369 14
For VISITOR subscription and

advertising,
From E. R. Shankland, (re-

refunded.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
From J. S. Thomas, (refun’d)
For Supplies sold Subordinate

Graiiges, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

357 1‘)

200 00
25 00

886 89

5,285 01

He has paid as follows :
Dr.

Paid Ledger Balance, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 47 31
Paid State Traasurer, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,490 19

“ J. J. Robinson for services and 135 30

“ for supplies, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612 21

$9,285 01

The State Treasurer has received
as follows :
Cr.

From J. J. Robinson, State

Treasurer, . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . $2,500 00
From J. T. Cobb, State Sec’y 8,490 19

810, 990 19

He has paid orders as follows:
Dr.
For expenses or State Grange Session
of Jan. 1875, and prior bills, ..... . .8 922 26
For printing, including printing VIs- '
Iron, Blanks, &c., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678 95

State Lecturer, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Balance due P. M., S. F. Brown,. .
“ Postage and Stationery,
“ Secretary‘s Salarly, three quarters,
“ office rent. . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ Furniture and
Blank Books, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ Legal Services employed, . . . . . . . .
Kansas Relief, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Expenses of State Agent. . 182 70
Rake and Patterns, . . . . . . . . . 29 10
Dues to National Grange, . . . . . . . . 1,290 27
Loan to State Agent, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 00

l For
1 5‘

378 55
750 00

39 00
67 08
50 00
23 30

Total,...... . .  
The $500.00 in the hands of State Agt.
Chilsoii also belongs to the State
Grange, making the real balance,. . $5,552 -19

The Committee on Finance to whom

E Was referred so much of the report of

 the Exeecutive Committee as referred
to placing a fund in the hands of the
State Agent, report that they have
had the subject under consideration
and do recommend that -.i sum not ex-
, ceeding $2,500 be placed in the hands
.= of the State Agent in the discretion

237 61 
451 80 S

Expenses of Executive Coin. 1875, 337 08 ;
Balance in the Treasury, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,052 49 .j

... .si0,990 19 ‘

Report of Committee on Publi-
calion.
To the Maste7' um] M6271/;z=:s o_/' .rl[f«-It/gan
State Gran_q«- :

The Committee on lublication
have the honor to report that the part
submitted to them of the M aster's
Address, relating to the organ known
as the GRANGE VISITOR. which was
published “in violation of a vote of the
last State Grange, relative to a State
organ, has been thoroughly examined
by your Committee. and they are sat-
isfied that, because of the multiplicity
of business, that the action of the

‘ Worthy Master and Executive Com-

 of the Executive Committee, out of,

the hands of the State Agent, the Ex-
ecutive Committee shall require him
? to execute a bond, with good and suf-
fieient sureties, to be approved by the
Ex. Committee, for the payment of

, in his hands.
Your Committee were also instruct-

any money that may be in the hands i
of the Treasurer of the State Grange. -
Before placing any such money in .

any and all sums that may be placed j

mittee was near»-ary a‘ d I/lI8lI:f1-07.-/‘r’,
in establishing the Monthly Circular
or GRANGE VISITOR.

And your Committee would recom-
mend the continuance of its publica-
tion in cnnection with the Secreta-
ry’s oflice, and that it be enlarged suf-
ficiently to meet the necessities of the
Order, but always under the control
of the Executive Committee.

And your_ Committee would further
recommend that it be issued semi-
monthly, if the Executive Committee
should deem it expedient.

Your Committee to Whom was re-
ferred resolutions from different tu‘ raii-
ges in the State, charging the publi-
cation known as T/u.» L’;-u mu] No2'tI2-

‘em Granger, a journal wishing and

,‘ ed to report the amount of crrmpen— , _
3 articles of a nature calculated to cre-

sation the Worthy Master shall receive
for his services the past year, and they
3' would respectfully report the follow-
‘ing resolution, and recommend its
j adoption:

1 Resolved, That the Wforthy Master of the

5 State Grange be paid for his able and faithful ‘

services in behalf of the G-ranges of this State,
’ the sum of $500 for the past year.

Your Committee also report the
3 following resolution :

Resolved, That the VVorthy Ti‘easurc~.r be paid
for his services tfie past year, the sum of $600.

Your Committee, to whom was re-

Secretary of the State Grange, as re-

fers to the subject of settling balances _~ independent Grange; “ith new rim
0 H ' ' ‘

due for attendance at the January
session. of 1875, report the following
and recommend its adoption :

Resolved, That the Secretary be instructed to
pay all balances due Masters for such services
when proper reports have been made from his
Subordinate Grange, Where the fees and dues

‘ have not been suiiicient to pay such service.
The Committee on l7inance to whom
= has been referred sundry petitions
I and resolutions in favor of a reduction
f of membership fees, respectfully re-

. and patient

ferred so much of the report of the ’

claiming to be an organ of our Order,
with publishing from time to time,

ate uneasiness and discontent. advi-
sing the subordinate Granges to sev-
er all connection with the present
State and National G1-aiiges, and as-
sume the position of Independent
Granges ; have, after much effort
investigation, become
s a t i s fi e d that these charges are
fully sustained, and that this journal.
while pretending friendship, has as-
sumed a positi -n which would, if sus-
tained, entirely subvert our organiza-
tion.

That he, the editor of this journal.
has proposed the establishment of

als and new works, to be printed and
furnished by him.

Your Committee in view of‘ this,
would recommend to this State

‘ Grange to recommend to all subordi-

, port that they have given the subject ;

. careful consideration, and unanimous-

lly report the following and recom- 3
l mend its adoption : V

Resolved, That after notice of the

Grange permitting the reduction of fees for
membership, that the minimum fee for mem-
bership in all Subordidate Granges in the State
of Michigan shall be: for men, three dollars;
for Women, one dollar, for the four degrees.
Resolved further, That the quarterly dues to
the State Grange shall be rrvn CENTS per
quarter for each member after notice of the
adoption of the above amendment to the Con-
stitution of the National Grange.
All of which is respectfully sub-
mitted. C. G. Luca,
J. W; BAKER,
E. T. LOVELL
Tnos. MARS,
M. B. HINE,

Committee.

7

pending -
amendment to the Constition of the National ‘

. ‘ C‘ . » -
. accruing from such Grange for the year 1875, 3 nine ‘jranges Ind ‘nenlbels thereof’

to discountenance this journal in its
course, believing that such course can
have but one effect, which is to dis-
trust and destroy the entire system of
our Order.
Respectfully submitted,
C. K. CARPENTER,
J. D. WILLIAMS,.
WM. F. LEWIS,
MOSES LOCKE.
W. N. BUCKBEE,
Committee.

Report of Committee on

C . .-
ration and 0 ope

Transportation.
To the Master and Members of .7l1ic7u,'_qrm
State Grange .-

Your Committee on Co-operation
and Transportation, to whom was re-
ferred a certain resolution on mutual
insurance, beg leave to present the
following, after having duly could-
ered the same:

That: as the plan of Mutual
Insurance among farmers, is in har-
mony with the objects of our Order,
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will result in a grea‘ saving to our
people, keeping at home :1 large am t
of money that otherwise would help
fill the overflowing treasuries of stock

C‘0lllp‘.Dl6S, and becoming a dangerous E

ower in our land.
We therefore recommend—

That the Patron- of Husbandry of;
this State insure their buildings, the , ;

in Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Com-
panies, where they exist, and aid and

encourage their organization Where- V

ever they are wanting.
C0-OPERATION.
To secure the b€I1t'fiiS of :1 system

of C-0-Operation in buying and selling, '

we need to organize into associations
large enough to buy at wholesale, and
make it an object for ninnufacturers
to seek our trade and enable us to
purchase in unbroken packages, direct
from manufacturers, producers or im
porters.

Your committee would. therefore.
recommend:

1st. The organization by counties.
or where a membership is large
enough, with two central or conven-
ient localities for market purposes,
have two : or. where these are lacking.
two or more counties or parts of coun-
ties may join in forming co-operative
associations. and W h e r e isolated
Granges exist, they can do the same
by themselves, and can order or pur-
chase through neighboring or State
Agents. These associations to chose
their own name and oflicers, and mak-
their own laws and rules, recom-
mending. however. that the oificers
consist of a President or presiding
oflicer, Secretary, Treasurer. n Busi
ness Agent. and a BO.lI'd of Directors.
under whose tlirecti-_vn the business
shall be conducted; and where the
association is not too large, said b..~ard
to consist of one member from each
S11l')J1'4.lll]3te Grange belonging to said
association. to be elected annually by
the Grange ihey are to represent.

The presiding oflicer and Secretary
of the association to be directors L7.‘
ofiz'«:(o.

ind. As a capital is needed for the
purpose of doing business, we recom-
mend That the amount thereof be
fixed by etxch association. ac.-:orcling
to their several needs. Skid capital to
be raised by shares taken by the
members of said association, fixing
the value of each share for themselves
together with the rate of interest
thereon. Said shares of stock not to
be transferable to parties not mem-
bers of the Order of Patrons of Hus-
bandry. °

3rd. That such a percentage be
added to the cost of goods as will
cover all expenses, including interest
on capital. The same to be regulated
from time to time by the stockholders.
A quarterly report to be made, by the
board of directors, to the stockholders
and members of the association, show-

ing a complete state of the affairs of.
said association. All business trans i

actions to be strictly and exclusivey
on the cash b:,zsis.

4th. All oflicers entrusted with
funds belonging to the association,
shall give ample security, by bonds,
approved by the board of directors,

and held responsible for the acts of

their employees.
5th. Farm implements should be

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I obtained as near home as practicable, 5 _ _ _
i Committee deem it expedient. This

‘_ thereby saving freight, and support-
" Where this

ing home industries.

3 cannot be done at satisfactory prices, -

secure them at the best point within
your reach, and to the best advantage.
either through your own agent, or by
him, through any agent or association
The same of lumber, shingles, salt,
' lime, plaster, seeds, etc.

6th. That a list ot the names and
post oflice address of the agents of
E business associations of our Order in
. this State, be published in the GRANGE
Visiron.

7th. The agents of the diderent as-
sociatinns in this State, togeth r with
the State Agent. sh-»nld confer with
each other, and, if deemed best. meet
once or twice a year, giving each
other the benefits of their experience.
and C0-OPERATE for the good of our
Whole State and country.

8th. There are but few things that
can be obtained to advantage through
:1 State Agent. except, perhaps, the
making of contracts with manufac-
turers, and railroad companies, and
to co-operate with agents of other
States, and impart all such contracts
and arrangements, and other informa-
tion obtained by him. to the Secreta-
ries of subordinate Granges, and to
dist:ict agents. Agricultural imple-
ments being manufactured at so many
dificrcnt points in our own and ad-
joining States. tso with lumber, lime,
etc.,,\. that there is little or no ad-
vantage over county or district agits.

9th. When we come to general
merchandise, here", in our judgment,
it would be to great advantage to our
Order, to have a man of ability and
experience, for the purpose of select-
ing goods, filling orders of general
merchandise, but not in retail quan-
ties. for agents of associations, and
finding a market for such surplus
products as the Patrons have to sell.
say w‘: eat. flour, pork, butter, wool,
fruit, etc-., etc.

That said State Agent be ell-C/rd an-
nually, by the Executive Committee
of this State Grange. and that the
Committee also fix the salary o: the
agent.

In regard to transpoi'tation. your
committee is not prepared, neither
would they deem it wise to burden
you with a lengthy report. Only rec-
ommending for the benefit of our
Order, that State and District Agents
make contracts with transportation
companies for special uniform rates
of freight for specifid time, which
must necessarily be confidential.

ALBERT ST]-ZGE.\IA.\'.

E. H. RISING,

G. W. V.A.:<_ui;Ex,
THOMAS WILDE,
SAMPSON PARKER,

Committee.

. gammunicatiuns.

g Shall We Have a State Organ.
; At the recent session of the State

:E after consideration of that portion of
5 the Worthy Master’s address relating

g to the GRANGE Visrroii, recommended :
that its publication be continued, and j
that it be made a semi-monthly, and :

i that it be enlarged as circumstances

should require, should the “Executive

recommendation was almost unani-
mously concurred in by vote of the
State Grange.

This action was not only proper and
important, to ensure the united action
of an Order of the vast proportions
which the Patrons of Michigan now
assumes; but seems a necessity, and
that it can soon be made a weekly
journal, if the Patrons 01 Michigan
give it merited support, by subscrip-
tion and contribution to its columns.
seems to me almost certain.

The Patrons of the State cannot ex-
pect to get authentic and reliable in-
formation in regard to the Order only
through such an organ. Those attend-
ing the recent State Grange, no doubt
have noticed the misstatements in the
Detroit dailies, in regard to its doings:
for instance, one paper stated the
amount of money in the hands of the
Treasurer to be $53,000. instead of
$5,052. The same paper, in publish-
ing the resolutions submitted by the
Committee on Resolutions, and passed
by the Grange, so changed them, by
leaving out and substituting portions
and words, that they could hardly be
recognized. One of them gave the
membership in the State at 3,400, in-
stead of 34,000; another gave a gar-
bled report ot the plaster question.
All of these are calculated to injure or
bring discredit on our Order; they
may have all been mistakes. but it is
singular how they all seemed to be in
the same direction.

To secure accuracy of statement.

where our interests are involved, we _

need an organ in entire sympathy with
us. and one large enough and coming
to our homes often enough, to take
the place of :1 family newspaper. in
which all the topics of the farm can be
discussed, as well as Grange interests
protected and Grange news dissemi-
nated_

If the Masters or Secretaries of each
Grange receiving the Visiron will take
it in hand and lay the matter before
their Grnnges, and solicit individual
subscriptions for the Yisiron, no one
who visited the recent State Grange
and observed the status of that body.
can doubt that the Patrons‘ of Michi-
gan would soon build up an organ of
which they could well be proud. lt is
hoped that one more year will see the
consumngation of this desired object.

Oaiox, MicH., Dec. 19, 1876.

—Mr. Mortimer Whitehead, Master
of the State Grange of New Jersey, in
a public letter, highly commends the
plan for the p:itron’s centennial en-
campment at Philadelphia, and urges
patrons to subscribe for the stock.
He also makes the important an-
nouncement that any patron attending
this encampment next season, can pay
his bills with the stock if he desires.

—-Lend money first to your Breth-
ren in the Grange who need it. Be-
cause a man is a Brother Patron, it

 Grange, the Committee on publication’ ; does not follow that you should take

' great risks to accommodate him, but,

if you can lend him on ordinary se-
c_urity what he needs, it is fair and
right to accommodate him.

——Examinc the Visrron, and if it

 meets your approval, subscribe for it.

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