Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-05-11
G RAN G 1T S.

There are 1,4OO subordinate Oranges in
Kansas, with over forty thousand men,
bers.
The Changers of the United States have
$1s, 100000 invested in their various enter
prises.
The Oranges in California ask the State
legislature to fix the fees of attorneys in all
cases where no contract is made.
They have had a "Grange collapse" in
California, too. The Order has saved Pat
rons in the State only seven millions of
dollars.
Secretary o. III. Kelley tells us that there
were more Oranges %organized,in March than
during any month for nearly two years, and
April (this monthly is also showing a very
active return of new Oranges in excess of last
year.
Colman (Mo.) Grange, No. 692, recently
learned that a former member was in a suf-
fering condition in Texas, and generously
appropriated money for his relief.-Er.
Tennessee has 1901 oranges. Conducted
as they are, in the interest of agriculture and
good, economical, honest government. and
without partisan bias, the salutary effects
of their influence are visible in every direc-
ton.
Florida State Grange invites immigration
to her luxuriant orange groves and healthy
climate, and points with pride to the best va
riety of luscious fruits in the United States
territory, with sugar lands rivaling those of
Cuba.
The worthy Lecturer of the National
| Grange states: "Six years ago no manu-
facturers dealt with us directly, no elevators
or warehouses We're owned by us, and no
banks or insurance companies were controll-
ed by us. Now, in one State alone there
are thirty-eight fire companies, and more
than half the warehouses and elevators in
Iowa and Wisconsin are under our control.
Furthermore, we have agents in every sec
ton of the country to whom we ship our
produce, and from them we receive forty to
fifty per cent more than we used to receive
from local buyers. In consequence of these
agents, We are bound by the ties of brother
hood and many heavy bonds. Patrons of
Husbandry have savedi in 1878, So, 0 1000; in
1874, $50, O0O, 900, and according to paesent
indications will save at least 5000 600. in
1876. Six years ago there were ten oranges
next year there were thirty-eight, the next
~thirty-nine, the next 10000, the next twenty
thousand. Now there are fifteen oranges
joining our ranks daily, and we number over
one million five hundred thousand. Our
experience is pointed proof that women are
worthy members of the union. We have
four. hundred thousand of them among us
and we ought to be qualified to give an opin-
ion of this kind.
The Grange movement has been the cause
of the establishment of agricultural bureaus,
and commissioners in seven of the States
whereby more information can be given the
farmers and the world in regard to every
subject Of Importance in the economy of
living.
There will be a very large increase this
year OF picnics among the Oranges, as COM
pared with any previous season. We al
ready hear of several being proposed in diff
ferent counties and in different States. This
is well, and we do hope that the subordinate
Oranges everywhere, during the summer
and fall, will have a social gathering for
the benefit of themselves and their neigh
bors.
Where have the members of the grange
attempted to reduce the wages of mechanics?
Where have they ever wroHged the laboring