The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-11


70 Is sure to fail of the desired. object The
8 generally come into the hands OF post offic
8 clerks, who fill them up and send them o
= TO Washington, and from the results thu
y acquired our statistics are made up Onl
p few farmers ever get these tables. and wei
lt IS so, for they are unreliable. Besides thi
they are not conf piled and sent out unit
n the succeeding year, too late to be OF an,
use TO those Tor whom they are intended
e Through the Oranges we may obtain cor
7 rect aud reliable statistical information il
regard TO our crops. | will illustrate b,
taking the GRANGE here. We will say it {.
composed of 100 MEMBERSHIP n m Der mas
be more or less, IL makes no difference.
, will take the wheat crop for an illustration
Ii will apply t. any class of crops or any
kind of animals. Take the wheat crop Ia
the field, when the farmers are done seeding
their wheat. each man reports to the Score
tary the number of acres he has sown in
wheat. If it is in the Spring, the same
course is pursued with the Spring wheat.
IL is made the duty of each man to report
as Soon as he has finished seeding. The re-
suit Is, you have the acreage of 100 mem beers
belonging to the Grange in question Now.
It Is the duty of the Secretary OF the local
Grange to report to the Secretary of the
State Grange. What one Grange can do.
every other Grange in the State can do.
The result is the total acreage of wheat in
the State
This calculation seems to be on the basis
that all farmers are Changers. From month
4
reported during the season. But what is
most important OF all, is that after harvest
| when the wheat Is gathered and threshed,
| the total number of bushels is to be prompt
| ly reported. The total result being had at
| the Secretar'S Office of the State Grange, il
Is his duty TO report it promptly to the Sec
! rotary of the National Grange. What one
| State can do every other State can do and
! there we have the total amount of wheat
| raised in the United States Ii is the duty
N4finnpl arpr fN mt oil fhna
arate figures into tahulated form. and the
further duty of the Executive Com mittee of
| the National Committee to put all these
separate figures into tabulated form, and
the further duty of the Executive Commit
| tee of the National Grange TO see that a
suifelent number are printed for distTbu-
ton among the members of the order
There need be no guess work about this
The books of the Secretary show exactly
now much wheat there Is in each State.
The reports are printed and sent OfI'-the al
iotment for each State to the State Secre-
tary. This may apply To every other crop
corn, oats, barley. need not enumcrate-
or TO any class OF animals or productions.
These reports are coming in from time to
time IN their season, and constantly being
returned in the aggregate TO the farmers
who made them. They are reliable; there
IS no conjecture here. We make them our
selves. There is no motive for the falSifica-
ton of a figure. By the same system we
obtain the demand and consumption in the
United States during the year. Through !
the same medium we NAV obtain the prob |
able foreign demand. rs well as well as the !
spectators in these products now do |
Then, being in possession of these leading |
commercial facts and features of supply |
and demand, We are placing ourselves in |
condition in which we may able to fix prices |
too. An incidental benefit of the system |
would be that we could prevent Over-pro-
duction in any certain direction, which fire.
quently occurs now through ignorance, not |
knowing what the supply of any given pro- I
duct may be. Knowing the supply and de-
mand, we propose To fix prices, fair and
equitable prices. that shall prevail until an
other crop is made. We don't propose to fix
eXtortionate rates, but barely remunerative
prices.
But. the observer asks. "How can you ar
range it so that the farmer will not sell
They are. for the most part, in debt. and
to realize on their products as !
soon as they are ready for market" We
propose 10 meet that difficulty by creating
a fund-you may call it a bank or what you
place it somewhere. We pro-
pose to build elevators, storehOuses, ware
houses. After we have fixed our prices for
our wheat we propose to store it there un-
til we get it. When the poor brother comes
and says he Is bound to realize on his wheat
and must get it out and sell it, we tell him
to get it ready for market as soon as he can,
take it to our warehouse or elevator, where
we have a com potent man to grade it, re-
ceive it, give him a certificate for it, and
give him a check on our bank for such
money az his wheat is good security for.
We will only charge him very moderate
interest on that advance. Now, If you can
tell me how long the rest of you can do
without eating. | will tell you how long
that poor brother will have to pay a mod
erate interest on the money we have ad-
Vanced him on his wheat. When the wheat
IS sold he gets, of course, the pro rata of the
interest paid on the money advanced to
lim.
Speaking of female membership, Mr.. AL
en- said: Some object To US because we
admit females to membership. We regard !
his az one of the important features of the
order, especially in social and education
Il point Of view. 1t is a guarantee for good {
moral conduct In the Grange. Where we
,an take our wives and daughters, we think
t may be safely pledged that there will be
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