The Grange advance., 1874-04-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITOR 1A1 NOTES.
Palladium Grange is fitting up Il cheese
factory at Green Mountain. Marshall Coun-
ty, H., which will commence work May J..
This is the kind o. enterprises for the
Changers to undertake. Let the West sup
and herself with al articles Of home con.
sumption in the way Of manufactured arti~
cles.
been badly swindled by pseudo-grange
coffee company at Chicago.
Served them right. They should nave
read the papers and learned to deal through
duly authorized agents of their own or with
responsible and well known firms at home.
People are SO often warned against hum
bugs at present, and yet will persist in
being cheated, that it seems no more than
the proper thing that they should be pun
ished for their fool-hardiness.
On the subject Of racing at fairs the Pat
rons of Los Angeles County, CAL, say that
they can see no treason why the State Of
California should thus encourage public
gambling under the guise Of fostering agri-
cultural interests"
The Minnesota State AgricultutaK Society
have decided to discountenance horse rae
ing and gambling and encourage farmers
in the efforts at improvement rather than
horse jockeys, and it is we'll. This branch
Of reform in which the influence Of the Pat
rons Of this State has been felt for good.
The Committee on Manufactures of the
Missouri State Grange, meets at Sedalia on
the 18th, to set q time for holding an elec-
ton Of Directors, one in each Congressional
District, to manage the works to be estab-
ished by the State Grange.
Why cannot the Minnesota State Grange
at its next meeting follow the good example
set by Iowa and Missouri, and establish
Mandatory in our own State, Of all lead
ing agricultural machinery? This would
help to solve the transportation question,
would make the farmers independent of
monopolists, save money in their pockets,
and build up the wealth Of our State.
Two. thousand persons have formed an
association in Zurich, Germany, to make
provisions for being burned after death.
The object is to save burial ground which
is getting scarce. Every one to their TASTE
Cremationists might do a good thing for
science and advance the welfare of the liv-
ing by setting about the supplying of medi-
cal students with subjects. It would re-
lieve students from the necessity of violat-
ing the law, and endangeriug their repu-
tation. fnot their personal safety, in order
to obtain the knowledge which is absolute
ly essential to the practice of the healing
art, and without which the diseased would
have to go without relief and many a life
be lost
Mr.. Schurz and Representative Hyde,
of the Tenth Congressional District, have
replied to the resolutions of the Missouri
State Grange that they will do a1l that
lies in their power to further. the improve
ment Of the Mississippi and it's tributaries,
as demanded therein. Mr. Stanard will
give the subject his especial attention"
We have heard it recently charged that
the Patrons have made foolish war on
railroads, and neglected the subject of wa
ter transportation. We deny the charge
and cite the above as an instance among
many where their demands have been heard
and needed. The Patrons make no war on
railroads, but only on their abuses-the
watering Of stock, the discriminating in
treights, the dishonest and extortionate
elevator management-and they have all
along looked to water transportation and
the building up Of home manufactures as
the best and surest way to solve their diff
culties.
We have been shown q drawing and pho.
tograph Of the new Improvement in har-
esters, invented by J. J. Dewey, one Of our
farmer boys Of. Hay Creek, son of D.
Dewey, one of the members Of the Execu-
tive Committee ofthe Goodhue Council, P,
Of H.. The Object Of the invention is "a
collect the cut grim and deliver it in com.
pact gavels eithef:to the binders or ON the
ground, and = It thl Same time 70 b simple
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