The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-07-08
The GrangeFs-Items of Interest
About the Rapidly Growing
Order.

About the Rapidly Growing
Order.
ParadoxicaI-Th new engine OF
the Des Moines, Iowa, Narrow gauge
Railway is named the Granger
The State Grange of Nebraska is
putting in machinery at Plattsmouth
for the manufacture of plows, cult
Vators, headers, harvesters, and 9th
er agricultural implements. The
building is twc-story brick, 40 by
40 feet. Thirty heads Of families
are employed to commence with.
Steam and blast power Of the neces-
sary quantity will be furnished.
Al gentleman who has travelled ex-
tensively throughout Georgia, in
forms the Augusta Chronicle and
Sentinel that the average in cotton
will be about 25 per cent. less than
last year. A large area Of land will
be devoted to corn and grain. The
State Grange Of the Patrons of Hus-
bandry recommended one third cot
ton and two-thirds in corn, wheat and
other such products as are needful
to the support of man and beast.
The Kansas State Grange, says
the Wathena Reporter, has refused to
recognize any paper as an official or
gan. This was wise action. Should
any particular paper be designated
as such, others equally friendly to
the Order, and conducted with as
much ability, would have reason to
feel aggrieved, and stop striving to
advance the cause of the Patrons.
AS it is all will do their best, and it
is much better to have the influence
Of many than but one.-Rural World.
The Patrons of Husbandry, of the
State of Georgia. have established
direct Trade Union with a capt.
tai Of $4,000. They met in Allan
tn, Wednesday last, and after elect
ing a permanent Board of Directors
and officers, passed the following
resolution: ResolUed, That we lock
with special favor ard qualification
upon the efforts which are being
made to establish the Liverpool, Sa-
vannah and Great Western Trans
portation Line, and all other efforts
for the establishment of direct trade
between Southern ports and foreign
consumers of our products, and will
give to them our hearty moral and
business support.
The Mobile Register gives the fol-
lowing good counsel: THE Register
is not an organ Of the Grange. 1t is
something better, for it is a friend
that will speak the truth to them
with fairness and candor. Let them
follow up the lead of the veins Of
sound principles that some great man
has struck out for agricultural amel-
ioration, improvement and mutual
protection. But let them be just to
other calIings, and beware that in
their blind confidence in every man
that wears the colors Of their Order, |
they do not fall into the hands of
those sharpest of briers, the trading |
political office-seekers.
From conversations with Hor. S.
S. Scott and Major W. S. Gordon, of |
Russell, and General George D.
Johnston, of Perry, officers of the
State Grange, we learn that the area |
Of Alabama lands devoted to corn,
wheat, oats, ETC., is greater by far
than was ever before known. These
gentlemen have had unsurpassed OPP
portunities to learn the exact agri-
cultural status, and their statements
may therefore be accepted as semi
official, to say the least. They are
satisfied from what they have seen
and heard that the recommendations
of the State Grange, as to the pro-
portion Of ground that should be de-
voted to cotton, are being faithfully
complied with. AS during the war
it was regarded as, in a measure,
to plant much cotton, so
now the feeling is general among
farmers that it would be reprehensi-
BILE to fail to comply with the recon-
of the Grange. By this
means a great good has been accom-
plished, and a suf1iciency for man
and beast seems already assured. IF
the seasons prove propitious, the
limited amount in cotton will yield
more than has been gathered in any
year since 1871. = Montgomery Id
ueYtiSer and Mail.