The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-29
THE. ORDER IN TEXAS.

The news that reaches US from 1eHaS IS
most cheering. Our letters from
the Empire State of the South all contain
the same stirring intelligence. Oranges
that were dormant are being reorganized,
and in many counties farmers are rushing
in by tens and twenties at every meeting
of Subordinate Oranges. And these cor
respondents unite in saying that co-opera-
ton is doing the work: wherever there is
a cooperative store, there the Grange is
growing rap dly. We here quote from
two of a number of letters recently re-
ceived:
Worthy Master H. c. Dial, of Hopkins
county, who sent us three large clubs OF
subscribers this month, writes under date
of the 18th
"Permit me to say, through the columns
of THE PATRON, to those who think that
the Grange is dead, that it is not the case
in this county. The Grange to-day IS IN
a better condition than it ever was, not IN
numbers, but in strength and in co-opera-
ton. The farmers are beginning to see
the necessity of cooperation, and while
they see the necessity of cooperation, they
see also the necessity of organizing, con-
sequently they are rushing to the Orange
at every meeting by tens and tWenteS.
Forty five have joined Sulpher Springs
Grange, 1896 in the last three months, and
other Oranges in the county have done
even better The Patrons cooperative
store of this county, which was started the
I4th of August last, is the cause of this
rush to the Grange All that is necessary
to make the Grange power IN the land
is for the farmers to understand co-opera-
ton. and if they could be induced to sub
scribe for and read THE PATRON, it would
be but short time before they would un-
derstand it, and as fast as they understood
its principles they would, with few exceP-
tons, practice the n.
Il send another club for THE PATRON.
[ will not be satisfied until | send you one
hundred subscribers. | will send you the
figures on our cooperative business for
the first three months next week"
Worthy Master L. Moore, sr., of Will
hanson county, another earnest member
of the Order and active friend of THE
PATRON, sends us club, and adds:
"Our cooperative business has been
doing splendidly. We now have new
house to go in and good hall above. 1t
is 3ox6o feet. Our Grange now has over
one hundred members"
Before these two earnest Patrons and
their noble co-workers commenced the
work of reorganization, the Order in their
respective counties was looked upon as
virtually dead. A little over twelve months
ago, Worthy Master Moore's Grange had
dwindled down to less than quorum, and
was doing nothing. But a cooperative
store was established in the nelghborhood
and conducted successfully, and now that
Grange is fairly blooming" 1t now has a
large, splendid hall and over one hundred
members, and the patriotic Master has
sent us some forty subscribers to THE PA
IRON. And the same condition of affairs
existed in Hopkins county. Worthy Mas
ter Dial and few members of his Grange
determined to establish a cooperative
store, and they succeeded splendidly. The
Oranges of his county are growing rap
idly, and he is sending us large numbers
of subscribers.
And this is the result everywhere
Where Grange has the enterprise and
public spirit to establish a cooperative
store, it opens the eyes of the farmers and
they rush to the Order Let the good
work go on. Let every neighborhood
have its store and its live, active Grange
and in the Cotton States have its E'new
process" cotton factory, and the farmers
will soon become the most prosperous
powerful and contented people in the land