The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1875-07-24
Grange Items.

The worthy Lecturer of the National Grange
states six years ago no manufacturers dealt
with US directly, no elevators or warehouses
were owned by US, and no bank or insurance
| companies were controlled by us. Now, in
/ one State alone there are 38 fire insurance
| companies, and more than half of the ware
i houses and elevators in Iowa and Wisconsin
are under our control. Furthermore, we have
agents in every section of the country to
whom we ship our products, and from them
we receive forty to fifty per cent. more than
we used to receive from local buyers. In con-
sequence of these agents, who are bound by
! the ties of brotherhood and heavy money
bonds, the Patrons of Husbandry saved in 1873
$4,000 in 1874 $l2, 900, 900, and according
to present indications will save at least twenty
million dollars in 1875 Six years ago there
were l0 Oranges; the next year there were 38,
the next 80, the next 10000, the next 10000.
Now there are fifteen Oranges joining our
ranks daily, and We number over 100000.
Our experience is pointed proof that women
are worthy members of every Union. We have
100000 of them among us, and we ought to be
qualified to give an opinion of this kind"
The Arkansas Grange paper reports busi-
ness experience i'll that State that applies
more or less to all the States. Although fire.
lows, will bear repetition: HStart a business
agency or store for the sale of implements,
etc., at low prices to farmers, and all the deal
ers in the country bring their prices down to
compete. Instantly every resident in the To-
caIlty wants to know of what use is the CO.
operative store or agency, since he can buy
just as cheap elsewhere?' The cause of the
depression in prices is forgotten until the CO.
operative store dies for want of patronage
and then, when the dealers have put up prices
again, 1t will be remembered very distinctly"
The stove manufacturers were in session at
st. Louis to nix prices for future sales, and
none of the papers get alarmed at it. They
would hardly keep SO quiet if the farmers
should meet and fix the price on their produc-
lions. They never have kept quiet on such
occasions. 1t don't make much difference, but
we like to keep people in mind of these incon-
slstencles. 1t the farmers of Indiana were to
meet In indianapolis, and fix prices for future
sales OF their productions, as the stove men
did, and other manufacturers regularly do a
wall would ascend from the daily paragraph
lists which would please some people amazing
ly.-Irad. Farmer
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If Master of a Grange is absent. the high
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nils all vacancies by appointment.
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The term for which the present Supreme
Judges of this State were appointed. exnires