The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-16
Chickasaw County Grange. Miss,
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Chickasaw County Grange, Miss.
Editor Patron. Chickasaw Coun-
ty Grange, 46, met at Houston on
Friday, July 1, 1851, Worthy Master
S. L. Wilson presiding, when the
Grange was opened in due form in
the 18th degree.
On motion the following report of
the Committee on Education was
received and adopted:
To ChickaSa7v County GRANGE.
Your Committee on Education
beg leave to report that we recog-
nize the fact that it is our duty to
advance the cause of education
among ourselves and our children
by all just means within our power.
One of the great obstacles in the
way of Grange progress and success
is the ignorance of so many of our
farmers in the common rudiments of
an education, as we'll as of the meth
DDS of organized effort, and, indeed,
of the necessity and importance of
organization itself. This ignorance
has been taken advantage of on all
occasions by the enemies of our Or
der, who find it an easy matter to
excite the fears or the cupiditY of
that class of our farmers who are so
remarkable for their ignorance that
they accept unquestioningly state
ments and advice that were intended
to mislead and deceive them. This
we conceive is one of several obsta-
cles in the way of the healthful pro-
gress of the Order and in some To-
calities has we'll nigh destroyed it. If
we would make good Patrons and
accomplish much for the good of
the farmer in the way of lessening
his burdens, we must become edu-
Gated. informed on all points that
are of vital and practical utility to
our Order; we must be able to make
ourselves felt in the halls of legisla-
ton and by the transportation and
other corporate interests of the coun-
try; we must be able to understand
and practice cooperation and all the
other business branches of our Or
der; we should strive to make our
schools better and more efficient, TO
make of them institutions where our
children will be educated to7Vard
the farm instead of a7Vay from the
farm.
We regard the Free Public Term
as wholly insufficient to educate the
rising generation; we must make
the most of our schools as they are,
but if we hope to educate our child
dren and fit them for usefulness in
the world, and prepare them to take
an honorable place in society and in
the Grange, we must supplement the
free public term with at least four
months independent pay schools.
Children will never be educated by
attending school but four months in
the year; they usually retrograde in
eight months about as far as they
advance in four, and by attending
school so short a time they never
become interested in their books or
in the cause of an education suffi-
GENTLY to prosecute it when out of
school.
AS the Grange is a good school
within itself, where the young can
improve intellectually as they be-
come older, we deem it advisable
and would respectfully recommend
the introduction of our children into
the Grange at an early age, say at
Id years, as the National Grange in
its wisdom has seen fit to decide, in
| order that they may early learn the
importance of our institution and
something about its practical
workings.
And, last but not least, we regard
i it of absolute, prime importance, and
would respectfully recommend, that
every member of the Grange take
and read at least one Grange paper
that he be not ignorant of the me-
cessity and importance of our organ
ization. Respectfully submitted.
&c. MILLER,
7. L. S. HILL,
T. THOMPSON,
Committee.
On motion, the Secretaries of the
Subordinate Oranges in this county
are requested to read the report o.
the Committee on Education before
their respective Oranges
On motion, the following resolu
ton was passed:
| + Resolved, That while we heartily
WELCOME all honest and industrious
HIM MIGRANTS into our State, yet we
ARE emphatically opposed to the ap
Y propriation of one dollar by our mex
ELegislature for the encouragement
On motion, the following officer
were installed' J, e, Miller over