The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-18
THE CHANGERS.

The Kent county, Michigan, Gran
gers held a picnic in August attended
by twenty-five oranges and 5000 per-
sons.
The Patrons of Powder Valley, Or
-eRou, make tree planting on farms and
highways an indispensable prerequi-
site to membership.
"A member has been expelled from
Darkville grange No. 694, of Missouri,
for divulging the secrets of the order
pertaining to the first degree.
II. N. Allen, master of the Missouri
state grange, the most active grange
manager in the west, is out strongly in
favor of the incorporation of each
grange.
Twelve Thousand dollars was with
drawn, August IS, from the Iowa state
grange treasury for the relief # the
sufferers from the destruction by the
grasshoppers in the state.
The Grant county, Wisconsin, Gran
gers have decide to organize an insur-
ance company. At their last meeting
they raised S13, 900 of $50, 900 necessary,
and they feel sure of the whole amount.
"A district council of oranges of
parts of Allegan and Van Buren, conn
ties, Michigan, was formed at South
Haven, in August, having as its object
the institution of more direct dealing
betwe en- producer and consumer, in re-
lation to fruit from the lake shore fruit
belt.
As we travel over the country, we
witness the wonderful influence which
the oranges are producing. Farmers
who have before been comparatively
isolated from their brother farmers, as
soon as they join the grange, become
different men-have broader sympa-
thies, kindlier feelings and higher as
pirations. They meet one another as
friends and brothers, and talk over their
matters, their prospects and hopes in
the most confidential manner. They
talk more than formerly, read more,
think more. They learn that it is as nee
essary to cultivate their brains as their
crops. They feel that what is the in
terest of one farmer is for the interest
OF another 4; and that it is by mutual CO.
operation that they can protect and adj
vance their own interests. They regu-
larly attend their oranges. and they en-
JOY these fraterual visits. They feel that
by every such attendance they are bene-
flied, socially, morally and intellectu-
ally. They take their wives and daugh-
tiers with them to these meetings, that
they may listen to the lessons set before
them, hear discussions on subjects of
interest, and thus derive the same ad-
vantage that they do themselves.
Nothing has ever been developed that
is doing so much good for the farming
community as the grange. They bring
80 no loka ,r
the farmer. He has been asleep He
is now awake, resolute, strong and firm
for the right and true, wherever it may
be found. -RUTdl World.
The Nashua IN. H Telegraph says
that the .ocal and political influence of
the grange is not all of the new swak-
eniug that has come among the farmers
With he intro 'uction of the order of
the Patrons of Hushsndry. The oranges
in this section, among which the Mil
ford grange, with some seventy mem
mers, naturally takes the lead, are test
ing the benefits of one nclpl g of
cooperation, called IN tn books the
distribution of wealth. They began
the experiment in the purchase of a
carload of flour. AS all true and sue
cess!ul co-Operatien is conducted on the
cash system, the money was raised and
Vail IL advance. Deputy @. @. Shaw,
ri Milford, one of the most active
workers in the order in the east, trans-
assed the business In due time, the
f3ur was landed in Milford, some being
distributed 10 the neighboring oranges,
and the net cost. for what they had pre-
1fOpsly paid SO per barrel, was only
SIS 40. A secoud carload, comprising a
hundred barrels of Minnesota pate It
process -four, which is retailing to-day
at so. has been purchased by the Mil
ford, Hollis, Lyndeboro, Amherst and
Nashua oranges, which cost them net on
delivery 50 10. The success with this
stsple article of consumption induced
the Changers to extend their operations.
They have applied the principle of Co
operative buying to the purchase OF
moving machines and horse-rakes, and
the saving on each has been from tif-
teen to twenty-five per cent. On salt
they make a saving of from forty to
fifty cents per bag, and so with every
article they have touched. 1t Is not
difficult to forecast some of the advan-
tages that will flow from persisting IN
this course.