Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-20
REPORT OF KANSAS STATE
AGENT
To Executive Committee, Kansas state
Grange p. of ~.

After appointment by you in August last,
we Immediately commenced a correspondence
with manufacturers and wholesale dealers,
with view to securing reduction in price
of needed supplies. We also opened cor
respondence with all the states, where their
grange had appointed any state agent, on
which to inaugurate new system of cooper.
alive business; and also with view of es-
tablishing agencies in the principal CONNER.
cial centers for the sale of farm products
The correspondence with the different oranges
and membership throughout our own state
has been very large, and since the first Of
September last, has occupied nearly one per.
sons time at this office.
The actual purchases through this agency,
have not been as large as we might, perhaps,
have expected but the questions and inqui.
ries prOpounded have been very numerous,
showing that there is deep interest being
taken in the business feature Of our organi-
ration all over the country.
Under your direction we have prepared
circulars Nos. |, 2, 3 and 4, a copy of which
has been forwarded to the secretary of each
grange in the state, 80 far AZ we have been
able to ascertain their addresses. Our efforts
have thus far, been directed more to making
arrangements for future operations, than to
actual purchase and sale Of goods through
! the agency.
A careful! record Of all oranges is kept in
the chronological order in which they re.
spond. A list and record is also kept in al.
phabetical order, showing the exact amount
paid by each and the date of payment. Up
to the present time we have been unable ia
get a complete and perfect list Of all the
oranges, with the post Office addresses of their
secretaries. The published list in the Spirit
of Kansas, is all the guide we have had in
sending out circulars to the different oranges
This list is quite imperfect, and is often the
cause of oranges not receiving circulars. II
has been our aim to send copy Of each cir.
cular as fast IA issued to each grange in the
state.
Arrangements have been made for the sale
of farm products at Kansas City, St. Louis
aud Chicago.
Pursuant to your request, we attended the
meeting Of state agents and others at st
Louis, on the 4th of February, 1874. We
ascertained from Brother Whitman, Of Iowa
that it would be impossible for the Iowa
mandatory to supply our orders for Warner
Harvester's this coming season. They will
not promise us more than six machines. Ia
view of this fact we ordered Bodine 4 Lob,
man, of Jefferson City, Mo-, to ship US a
sample combined Hubbard mower and reap
er, which if satisfactory, can be furnished Il
any extent needed. The same firm also for
ward us a sample mower "The Meadow
Lark, grain drill and horse rake.
We would suggest the propriety OF making
arrangements with Messrs. Bodine 4 Lob
man, or some other manufacturer near a
at home, to supply us one year hence with
the Werner Harvester, as there seems bu
little prospect of getting them unless som'
arrangements Of this kind are had. Orders
for this machine are now on file in this Office
! that cannot be filed.