The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-12-24
Lecturers Document Of the Ma
tiOnal Grange II. of HI.
D SUBORDINATE ORANGES
A L..

A Happy New Year to ALL
The duty and responsibility of
issuing and distributing topics for
discussion in Subordinate Oranges
has again been assigned to me. l
| therefore issue this, the first com
munication for 1852, including jan
uary, February and March. Where
the address of the Subordinate
Grange or Lecturer is furnished
they will be mailed direct from this
office, otherwise they will be sent
through the Master or Secretary of
the State Grange; and when re-
ceived by a Subordinate Grange
they should be brought to the notice
of the Lectueer at once, who should
introduce the subject to the Grange,
and, after giving bis views, solicit
discussion, so that they may be well
considered. ss-e
The following was reported by
the Committee on Good of the Or
der to the National Grange, and.
unanimously adopted by that body:
"Resol1,ed, That the quarterly issue of
topics by the Wo thy Lecturer to the
Subordinate Oranges in his jurisdiction
be continued under such instructions as
this Grange may give, and to have the
same read and considered in open Grange
as soon as may be after they shall have
been received, and that this resolution be
printed upon the same sheet"
1t is not intended. to have the
+ Il arI
considered at one meeting, but the
subject for each month to be read
and considered in that month.
We will insert in future issues of
these documents business cards of
Cooperative Associations and of
Grange business enterprises at reas-
enable rates. Advertising cards
for the April number must be sent
in by February 2oth, 1882.
January. ISS2.
Subjects for Subordinate Oranges
Tor this month are Nos. I and2.
Question 1-How to prosecute
Grange work to accomplish the
best results in Subordinate Oranges
during the year?
observation-disclosures, doubtless
elected last month, should now
be installed, and each resolve
to be-in attendance at every meet
ing of the Grange, and to do all
they can to make the meetings
pleasant and profitable. So should
every member determine to be
equally regular in attendance, and
strive to make them interesting.
Go to teach and be taught, see that
the quarterly reports are promptly
made to the Secretary of the State
Grange, and all State dues paid;
also, that the semi annual reports
to the Masters of the State Grange
for the quarter ending March 3Ist
and September goth, 1881, be made,
giving increase of membership by
initiation and reinstatement, as well
as the decrease by death or other
wise; the progress made in educa-
ton and cooperation, success or
failure and the causes leading
thereto.
!9uestion-What is cooperation?
Sueeesfions-The consolidation
of the efforts of many in any work
is cooperation. Efforts of many
comparatively applied will accom-
plish wonderful results. Our Gov
ernment is founded upon this prin-
ciple, and success is in the direction
and for the purpose in which its
citizens apply cooperative effort.
If farmers concentrate their efforts
and CO. operate upon Grange prin-
ciples, they can shape the future
destiny and welfare of the Govern
ment. Through non-co-operation
of farmers the capitalists and cor
porations control it to their own in
terests. An obstruction in high.
way that one man could not move,
and would be useless for him to at
tempt, twenty men cooperating
might move with ease. By co-op-
Grafton the largest mountains are
tunneled from base to base in a
single year, while individual effort
would require life time, and then
fail. E. ESHBAUGH,
Lecturer of National Grange.
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