Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-10-22

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MATER Dudley W, Adams waukon, Iowa.
ovEhsEKR-ITh Tay lor, Columbia s. o.
LEcTTyRER-T. A. Thompson, Plalnviow, Wabasha Co,
srEwARD-A. j. Vaughan Memphis Tenn.
ASST sTEwARD-a. W. Thompson, New Brunswick,
CHAPLGiN-Rey A. B, erosh. Washington, D. G.
TaEasgssR y a A. MSIDOvslL Wayne MY.
GATE kEEPKR-O. Dlnwiddie, Orchard Grove, Lake
CERSs-MTs d. W. Adams, wauEOn, Iowa,
PonoNA-Mrs Thos Taylor, Columbia, s. @,
FLoRA-Mrs Jos r. Moore Sandy Spring Md
LADY Ass'r srEwARD-Mlss Q. A. Hall, Louisville,
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
William Saunders, Washington, d. Q.
d. Wyatt Aiken, Cokesbury, Abbeville Co, s. G.
adi.s s9 e eSs1S' d BISSSSS iSy1
John +. Jones, Helena, Ark.
oHicsrs OF Vermont state Grange.
MAsrER-E. p. Colton Irasburgh
TREAsURER-C. J. Bell, Hardwlck.
SECRETARY James X. Tobey, Calais.
AeENr-J. II. Crosby, st Adams.
Jersey grange, Minnesota, has started a
paper and every member has to write for it
or pay fine.
Deputy ID. Il. Boyden will lecture at Eu-
field, N. H., Monday evening, October 25,
and organize grange the following evening.
A wholesale boot aud shoe firm in Elmira,
N. Y, has increased its yearly trade $780,
600 by dealing directly with the Patrons,
for cash, aud the oranges dealing with them
have saved thirty per cent upon their pur-
chases of boots and shoes.
A grange store opened at 0ttervile, Mo-,
Cooper county, last April, with a stock Of
81 400 reports business Of $3.50 to $500
per day. No credit is given aud the far
mers have already arranged their business
affairs so as to be able to make all their
purchases for cash at cash rates.
Patrons Of Husbandry are requested to
send items OF interest relating to savings
made on purchases, growth Of oranges, mem
bership, attendance, etc, to tho editor
of the grange department oil the vermont
FARMER, aud he will oOndense, classify aud
arrange them for publication. Send reports
of conventions aud grange meetings and mat.
tiers ready for publication directly to the
FARMER.
About fifty members Of Wide Awake
grange at ST Johnsbury Center, met at the
house Of Bro Moses Huntly, last Tuesday
evening, and with half dozen machines
they took the hides off from fifteen bushels Of
apples in two hours and half besides
carrying on considerably meantime. And
so they ate supper and trained until
about midnight, when they struck for home,
having had good time.
The Patron of Husbandry. printed al
Columbia, Miss, says: "The people here
are in far better condition than they have
been since the war, for which they are 10.
debted to the grange. The farmers have left
the old ruts, no longer raising little else
than cotton, buying all their supplies on
credit, lavish in their expenditures, depend,
ent on mddlemen for everything The
grange has been to the South what Joseph il
Egypt was to the dwellers in Canaan"
Brother o. II. Kelley writes us that he
finds the new grange headquarters at Louis.
vile, KY, much more commodious and agree.
able than the old ones at Washington. He
proposes to open a reading room there, in
which will be placed all the books, reports,
etc. that may come into the possession Of
the national grange. This room will be
open at all times to members Of the Order
aud will be Of great advantage to those Wis
iting headquarters, if they succeed in getting
a good grange library. $40
The Patrons of st Johnsbury seem to b.
in earnest about cooperative store in con
nection with the Sovereigns Of Industry whc
have successfully conducted one on a smal
scale for nearly year. The Burton plan i
the most likly to be chosen, in which goods
are sold to members and non-members a
about the usual prices, but members receive
a dividend back. Everything is to b
bought for cash and sold for cash. Ampl,
bonds will be required of the agent, and h
will be closely looked after by the directors
A committee appointed to draw up tn
papers will have the books ready for sub
scriptions Of stock by Saturday evening.
The state grange of Missouri has organ.
lied grange mutual FIRE insurance company
with capital of 100000 in shares o
S25 each The farmers of Missouri ar
availiDg themselves Of the advantages of tn
company, their policies being filled out a
their grange meetings, and the commission
aud salaries usually paid to agents are saved
Only farmers buildings are insured, an
their insurance costs them about half a
much as so-called "rcliable companies
charge for the same class Of property. Tn,
heavy losses during the past year in on
large towns by FIRE admonish Vermont far
mers to attend to their interests, and the
committee upon insurance appointed at tn
last meeting of the state grange should b.
prepared to present feasible plan Of grang
insurance for Vermont, when the stat
grange meets.
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