The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-17
THE CHANGERS.

Tor the best corn and the largest number
of bushels from one acre of land j; $15
for the largest number of gallons from
one acre of cane, and ten dollars for
| the largest and best hog raised III Win
ston county.
A committee of the Fairfield county.
O., grangers' county council visited the
merchants and other business men of
Lancaster, and requested special stip-
ulation of prices on goods of all kinds.
They received a uniform answer, that
the grangers will be allowed wholesale
prices on wholesale quantities, the same
as other patrons, and no discriminating
reduction will be made.
Some time since ST. Louis granger
planted ten cents worth of peanuts in
his backyard. Scoring the services of
middle-men, he entered into negotia-
tions with retail peanut vepder on Oh
i've street, and engaged the whole crop
at 81. so per bushel. Last week he ex-
amined the hills and found that his
seed had all rotted in the ground. On
consulting an Eastern Tenuesseean he
learned that peanuts are not sure crop
in the latitude of st. Louis, especially
when the seed is thoroughly baked be-
fore planting.
1t is one of the main objects of the
grange to bring about more of the cour-
tesies and amenities of life in the social
intercourse among the producing classes.
It endeavors to instill love for all that
is good and beautiful and true in agri-
culture it inculcates industry and fru-
gality shows them the importance of
system instructs them in improved
methods of cultivation; increases their
facilities for social intercourse and Or
ganizes them into one compact body
upon the principle of mutually of inter-
est and congeniality of taste. Why
should they be charged with dabbling
in politics when they simply undertake
to establish more permanent and re-
liable system of labor? Does not their
very existence depend on this very
thing? Then, our advice is, pay no
attention whatever to the yelping cry of
politics, and if it becomes necessary to
memorabilia congress with regard to
any question vitality affecting the agri-
cultural interest, do not hesitate to do
SO.
1T is admitted by southern papers
that the establishment of oranges of the
order of che Patrons of Husbandry has
been productive of many benefits to that
region. They have given an impetus to
white immigration, so much needed to
occupy and fertilize the lands trampled
| over by hostile armies, and denuded by
the calamities of civil war. The area
of acres planted in cereals has greatly
widened in the last few years, rendering
certain localities independent for home
supplies of food. Manufactures are also
springing up, wherein the abundant raw
| materials of the south are wrought into
| fabrics, which before the war were al
nest entirely imported. Georgia has
attained pre-eminence in this respect
| the state now boasts numbers of cotton
mills in which several Thousand opera
tives are employed. and which impart
| degree of prosperity that is felt by all
classes and conditions of society. The
| Patrons have besides exercised an infiu
ence in toning down the rancor of party
spirit, which had a most demoralizing
| effect upon the industrial pursuits. The
avowed object of the Patrons is to slim
ulate the growth of agriculture and to
| improve the condition of those who en-
gage in it. This mission they have &C
| complished, not only IN such of the
southern states as have adopted the Or
der, but throughout the entire country /;
and if they continue to practice upon
| the design which has been declared to
| be the paramount object in their organ
ization, the measure of their usefulness
will be as boundless as the wide field in
which they propose to conduct their
operations.
AT present the headquarters of the
national grange is located at Washing
ton, D. c., which is productive of much
inconvenience, being far removed from
the centre of our heaviest agricultural
operations and populations, involving
much delay-in communicating with it,
as we'll as an expense, when visit is
necessary. The present location is sub
iect to another very serious objection.
It is near the focus of the political
schemes and Vaccinations of the coun-
try. Everything OF political nature
naturally goes to Washington, and as
the organization is non-political in its
very essence we can see no good reason
why its chief council should be held I'D
that city, but very many why it should
be removed to the west. st. Louis,
Louisville or Cincinnati being the points
nearest to the centre of the great grange
populations of the nation, are the easiest
of access and points involving less ex-
penditure of time and money to reach.
The wonderful progress made by this
benefcent organization develops the
hitherto unguessed-at strength in the
farms of the nation, and more particu-
larry those of the young, vigorous west,
not only as regards wealth and the
power money always gives, not only in
regard to the Importance of the vast
interests represented by them, but also
their intellectual weight. This move
has unearthed the fact that the farmers
of the west are not behind any other
class in their estimates of what most
nearly concerns and affects the good of
all, and the best and readiest influences
TO put to work to further this good, and
develop its fullest and best phases in
the shortest possible time.
Applications for membership may
be received at any meeting, but ballot
ing should be done at a regular meet
ing only. At regular meetings the
opening should always be in the fourth
degree, as there is always business to be
done peculiar to this degree. At spe-
cial meetings for comforting degrees, the
opening may be in any degree. Monthly
dues from a member to his subordinate
grange minimum ten cents) commence
at tho beginning of the month immedi-
ately following his initiation. No quar-
terly dues are payable to the state
grange until the beginning of the
quarter subsequent to the organization.
Thus, grange organized between the
1st of January and the 1st of April
makes no report until the Both of June,
which report includes quarterly dues
from April 1. The subordinate grange
pays ne membership fees to the state
grange on charter members, but only
on those admitted to membership after
the beginning of the first full quarter.
One of two oranges desiring to consoli-
date should vote to surrender their
charter and consolidate with the other.
The other should vote to receive all the
members of the surrendering grange
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