Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-11-26

sluct nls SITUATION, study all MS interests,
compare his interests with others interests.
Our oranges enable us 10 do this. To com.
municate 10 each other all of our expert
ments upon our farms and to compare all
our interests, educational social and fnan-
cial. Our fairs. ostensibly for our farming
interests, accomplish nothing for tho farmers.
They are TO SEQ who has the fastest horse, not
the most useful one TO see who has sheep
with the most grease In its wool, or who can
raise a mammoth squash whom no one can
use, and TO give them the premiums over
useful articles. The grange goes deeper,
tends 10 elevate, 10 educate farmers to show
us how to manage our farms, to bind to-
gether 10 fraternal, social union.
The financial feature is the least impor-
tant feature Of our Order. To educate the
farmer to protect his interest is far more inn
portnnt To-day fifteen or twenty lawyers
rule New Ilampshiro nominate its officers
and control its legislation. No bill in the
farmers interest can PISS the New Hamp-
shire Legislature, unless the lawyers have
their palms creased, and he gave rs an Illus
tration the history of AN attempt on the part
Of the representatives from Bath to have
law passed protecting the fish IN u certain
pond. ear after year they failed, until
sharp lawyer who noticed the attempt and
failure, suggested to them to grease the
speakers hand. Some partisan attended to
that matter and the law was passed. immed
ately.
New Hampshire agricultural college was
n failure TO benefit tho farmer. Could II DO
removed to Plymouth or some other town
away from Dartmouth college, IL would be
worthy of the patronage of the farmers. The
agricultural students are daily subject to the
sneers Of the other students at Hanover, and
in the College Egis, n burlesque paper
printed at the college, the agricultural stu
dents were dubbed Dungeys. Some of the
professors speaking Of the fact, said they
we've sorry rs It would have AN effect on the
Legislature when they asked for further
appropriations from the stale for the college.
Such acts were considered AN outrage upon
the farmers OF New Hampshire, and should
be denohnced, and he wished no could speak
loud enough In denunciation to bring the
potatoes at Hanover agricultural college ont
Of the ground that had not been dug for two
years. The students at that school never 90
upon the farm Some Of them applied for
positions at West Point this fall. They are
educated there to look mt farm labor as de-
grading; hence they shun the farm and enter
the professions.
The Patrons should make the grange q
school to discipline the mind to study and 10
learn facts about farming. Our common
schools accomplish little or nothing in that
direction. Our children leave the schools
too soon, and our young men go to the viii
lagos, sport canes, and work mt such pursuits
rs do not discipline the mind. He said he
had six children, and rs fast as they were
old enough, would take them to join the
grange. How many more he might be
blessed with, he did not know, but he would
make them all grangers. [Cheers. In his
own neighborhood five families had forty
children grown up, and only five of them
remained in Bath; tue rest had gone to
the cities or to the West to seek their for
tunes, and had failed, in many instances.
Vermont and New Hampshire are losing
their best sons from the farms. We must
| consider in the grange how we can retain
them upon our farms.
He urged the Patrons strongly TO attend
every grange meeting, and make the Order
a success to study our educational interests,
our financial interests, and especially study
| the sanitary condition Of our farms, our
barns and our houses. As physician he
had studied the sanitary condition of the
rural districts and found many of tho laws Of
health violated by the farmers in the ar
rangement of their buildings.
A vote Of thanks to brothers Jameson aud
Child was moved and taken by rising vote,
and, after a song, the committee Oh resolu-
tions reported as follows;
Whereas, We believe the farmers OF the
country who are unorganZed are liable to
| be imposed upon by various rings and
| monopolists, and lin union alone there is
strength" and,
WhcredS, We believe wo have n perfect.
just and honorable right to organize for the
| mutual benefit and protection Of each other,
| therefore, be II
Resoired. That the members of the Patrons
of Husbandry OF Connecticut River Valley
pledge ourselves to cooperate with the Pat
rons everywhere for carrying out the princl-
| pies and noble objects Of our Order. That
| we make no wiIr upon any class OF men who
make their living hy honest industry; and
slaagst
OF labor and honesty, we call on all good
men and women to join us in the work of
reform.
Resolved Tint our motto Is ITO live and
let live, aud that we claim tho merchant,
the manufacturer, the mechanic and the
| labOrer "a necessity to ourselves and tho
| country generally, and we feel il to be our
duty TO patrOnizo our Eeghbors when we
can do so without pocunitry loss or inCOnve-
nlencc to ourselves; yet we believe farmers
should buy in tho cheapest market and sell
in the best market, and reduce tho number
as low rs possible of those who Unjust livon
| by profits derived from handling the products
of the farm and mandatory. Therefore
we pledge ourselves. and recommend the
Patrons Of Vermont and New Hampshire TO
patroniZe their state agencies whenever they
can practically purchase goods through the
agencies and save money thereby.
| Resolved, That the farmers should deal on
| N
/ prices, and entirely abolish the credit system
in their ordinary business transactions, MS it
| is alike ruinous to ourselves, our neighbors
| and our country.
Resolved, That II is for tho interest and
| well being of our Order to establish u system
of arbitration for the adjustment and settle
| ment of the civil notions that may arise
between the members of the Order. and we
pledge ourselves TO conform to and abide
| by" the law OF the national grange, requiring
all such differences TO be settled by arbitra-
| ton.
Resolved, That we will adhere strictly to
the constitution aud bylaws of the Order,
and thereby promote the interests of our
oranges, and insure their prosperity.
Resolved, That we heartily endorse the
fifth article of the Declaration of Purposes, ~
adopted by the national grange in February,
1874. viz; I'VE emphatically aud sincerely
assert the oft-rcpeated truth taught in our
organic law, that the grange, national, state
and subordinate Is not political or party
organization. No grange II true to its obli'
CATIONS can discuss political or religious
questions, nor call political conventions, nor
| nominate candidates, nor even discuss their
merits ut It's meetings; yet the principles wO
teach underie all true politics, all true
craftsmanship and if properly carried out
will tend to purify tho whole political atmos-
phere OF our country for we seek the great
est good to the greatest number
The resolutions were unanimously adopted,
Bro j. II. Crosby, state agent, gave the rea.
sons why he was not an orator, and related
the incidents connected with a trip Of Bro
jameson to Euosburgh to purchase some
calves, and he was heartily cheered by the
audience.
After singing, the citizens retired, and the
Patrons present held very pleasant and
profitable meeting, aud were instructed ia
tho upwriuen work and rules Of the Order,
by Deputies Jameson and HOyden,
The convention was a success, and augurs
we'll for the Patrons of Connecticut River
Valley and the grange agencies of New
Hampshire and Vermont.
| What thu CranUa Has Oona