Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-09

tic pdttic VI me tS we We're before In
the Grange we learn to take the advan-
tage of the agricultural papers and
profit in this branch Of work NV tho
advice of others. BY the experiments
made at government expense we do not
gain such great sight OF benefit AZ
the conditions under which they are
conducted is so very different from our
own. In a Grange in Indiana we an
pointed experimental committees Ia
carry out different ideasin RAISING. corn
At the end of the season another COM
mlttee went about and judged the re-
suits. Every member of the cxperi-
mental committee reported on his work
and thus we We're able To learn Of the
success and failures. ana profit BY
them. We took each crop in this same
way ana protited by each.
We in those years improved orr
landscapes by adding trees and doing
other forms of work. Today the value
of our farms is increased so that the
money cost at the first was inconsider-
able as compared with the benefits
seen today.
one of the lessons that Patron
should learn is to love his own wife
as well as his neighbours wife. You
laugh at it but really it is so. We be-
lieve in the West that il is GOOD busi-
ness policy. You must prove by your
actions out in Indiana. The women
won't take your word for it. AS q
matter of compound selfshness it is
policy, for from the Kindness YOU be-
stow upon your wife and children. it
is returned by them in a thousand
ways. This sort of treatment of wife
soon becomes to be natural to you and
| peace reigns through your neighbour
hood. The pendulum Of society has
been swinging toward the cities Make
society in the country what il should
be and it Will swing in the direction of
the country. | have had a
chance to see Maine. tn people are
making 4 summer home out of it.
Maine viii te a Lincoln park To
the world in 100 years from today.
! Do MOI he blind to your resources in
| this lire and grasp them while you
may. NJ state has more attractive
homes than Maine and You should APP
| preciate it. ! was up in your Aroos-
took county. last week. ard saw the
broad acres of possibilities there. BY
| the way. | met your Governor and he
gave me royal welcome on account
Of my being the head Of the order that
| he SO greatly respects. He said he
was quite a farmer in his way as he
| possessed about lSo0gO acres Of land
| which he Said hc mad recently signed
a contract to a,ll for s. an .cfe.
TO prove ,h1t you ioyc your wife
| YOU should .aukr Nil the money you
can fairly ami suu4rely. Raise the
crops at the least expense and follow
| them to their final disposal to the con-
sumner The farmers have been spend
| ing - per cent. of endeaVor to raise
/ their crops and one-half per cent in
selling. Here is q mistake. Exert the
| over % per cent. in selling and you Will
reap Il just reward. \ man with a
| SO. 600, 600 bank account and with $500
| employees asked me. the other day. II |
knew where his greatest trouble lay
and what was the most difficult thing
| in business. | did not and he said it was
| in knowing how to sell. If the man
ufacturer does not sell well he Will
soon go into bankruptcy. Whatever
you have put it in the best market
possible II does not pay to sell corn
- 'N--N
hay as lamb: 1 do. l realize $3.50 more
an acre on my corn by selling il as
lamb--fecding it to lambs and selling
| thcnl-than l would to sell it as corn,
and that is clear profit II is honest
money. | held some of my lambs, last
year. and by so doing and shipping to
the Chicago market | gained $50 car
load. Was that money honestly made :
Certainly it was. ! gave my wife Il
new dress and the children some pres
ents and practically it cost me moth
ing. At the same time | gained much.
For the dress and presents made them
glad the old man was around and
made them think more of me.
THE Grange out West is doing
much of its buying at wholesale.
know of one Grange of 30 families that
saved $1,000. last year. by its method
Of buying where they could buy the
cheapest They divided the money af-
ter connecting the 80 houses by tele-
phone at a cost of about S. Il family.
They also bought their telephones in
manner that they did not have to pay
rent Every Grange should be like
wise connected with telephones. We
ought to have nice roads. If we had
the money we would have them.
What | earnestly want and expect
is rural delivery Of mail. You remem-
Der there was a law passed for the APP
Dointn1ent of an industrial commission
consisting of five members Of the
House. five of the Senate and nine
members to be appointed by the Presi-
dent to look into the laws and condi-
tons and recommend to Congress such
action as they deemed wise for the
solving of the labor and industrial
question. The commission was be
seiged with representatives of every
class but the farmer. and they thought
of him. Secretary Wilson of the de-
partment of agriculture, said the legiS-
lative committee Of the Grange would
be the proper ones to consult and they
were sent for tOappear before the COM
mission. They said they wanted every
law that reflected on the farmer or in
terfered with his rights changed. or. in
other words. they wanted the law OF
equality with other people to prevail
When asked to name one where the
farmer was not getting as much as an
other class. they pointed out the pos
tai laws that did not provide for the
rural distribution of mail. | believe
that is coming in time. as it justly
should.