The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-12-18
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able, and show what immense advanta.
ges the farmers may reap from cO-opera-
tive purchasing. Mr.. Saunders stated
that IN Illinois the State Agent of the
Changers ascertained that a favorite reap
err, which the farmers had been paving
$3.50 for to agents OF the manufacturers.
was sold to the age IS of the manufacturer
for $50. The State Agent asked the man
ufacturer how many reapers he could
make in year, and learning what the
number was, he told him he would take
all he could make in year ut $50 each.
Thus the farmers saved 500 on every
reaper they bought. Another agent of
the Order recently bought l 300 sewing
machines outright of the maker for $50
each, saving $50 each In less than a
month 900 of the maehin S were taken off
has hands by members of the Oranges.
! Last spring the members of a Grange
IN Vermont wished to buy some corn.
| Their Secretary so informed the Secreta-
~ of the National Grange in this civ,
who directed an agent in Iowa to buy the
| corn, hire cars, load them, and ship the
corn through To Vermont. The Yer
monters on receiving the grain, found
chat they had saved lS3 cents a busheI.
comparing its cost with the price charg-
ed by their regular dealers. A few trans
actions OF this kind getting noised among
the farmers last spring, gave the move
ment its surprising impetus.
Lately the National Grange has interes-
ted itself in assisting cottOn-growers in
the South by negotiation for a large guam
tity of cloth for cotton bales. Four mil
lion bales are used in the South each sea-
son, and have hitherto cost the raiser 81 %
each. Two or three old firms in the East
have the whole trade An agent OF the
National Grange went to them and pro-
posed To take large quantity of the ma
terial used at reduced price. At fret
the dealers were shy and Indifferent, but
they soon discovered that the agent was
prepared to give bonds for the fulhIlment
of his engagement, and to pay cash on de- |
livery, and they reduced their price sew
eral cents yard.
Again, the National Grange proposes
to use portion Of its funds in encourag-
ing inventions of agricultural Implements
Take for instance cotton-ties. The only |
good tie for cotton now in use Is |
manufactured by an English firm, which |
holds patent on it and charges an ex-
horbitant price. The Grange intends to
encourage American inventors to contrive |
substitute for this tie.
just now Mr.. Saunders is seeking to de-
wise an improved method of insurance
for farmers. Another of his plans is to
have portion Of the funds of the Nation
al Grange now amounts to some
$35, 00O-eXpended for libraries for sub
ordinate Oranges. Already the educa-
tional Interests of the Order are in a
measure provided for, inasmuch as each
society has regular officer, called the
Lecturer, whose duty it is to give special
attention to the science of agriculture and
to the improvements that are made from
time to time in the department in which
husbandmen are Interested.
Although so much has been accomplish
ed by the Order during the past ten
months, both directly and indirectly, yet
MIR. Saunders is confident that a compar-
atively small beginning only has been
made, and that. with hundreds ofmen on
the alert to devise and hunt up things for
the good Of the order, there is surely open
ing to the husbandmen of America,
through the instrumentality he has form
ed, glorious future Of prosperity and
happiness.