Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-05-13
new YORK PATRONS,
They Are Now $4,000 Strong
and Still Growing.
The Annual Meeting of the Empire
State Grange Was BusinessIike
Convocation of the Representatives
of tho Farmers.


Of tho Farmers.
The recent meeting of the New York
state grange was the largest and in
many respects the most important
meeting of New York Patrons that has
ever been held 1t was business
body, and the outcome of its delibera-
tons was such as to give it still great
err prestige in the state in respect to ali
public questions involving the inter
ests of the farmers. whether members
of the Order or not.
Statistical Report.
The secretary's report showed a net
gain in membership during the year
ending Oct l.. 1908, of 1883. The to-
tai actual membership on that date
was S2,S19, and there We're new
oranges not reported since Oct. l of
AIS, making the actual membership to
Jan. l, 1909, So, 267. The total number
of oranges in the state is over 700
The secrctary's office has received dur
ing the year $24,G79.1S.
According to the treasurer's report.
there was on hand one year ago $16,-
0SS.52, and total receipts from the sec
retarys office during the year were
$20,036.37. making the total years re-
sources SIG, 12t.S9. Expenses amount
ing to S15 600 have been paid during
the year. The surplus funds in the
bank are deposited in seven savings
institutions and trust companies.
An Important Committee.
One of the most important commit
tees of the state grange meeting al
ways is that on legislation. About
forty resolutions were referred to this
committee this year for consideration.
For the information of those who do
not understand the workings of the
grange in sess ion, we n,ay that
there are about thirty uinerent COM
mittees appointed by the state master
Every delegate Is on one or more COM
mittees Resolutions are read when pre-
sented and then referred without dis
cussion to the appropriate committees,
who meet and consider and give hear
ings on the matters that are before
them. When their work is completed
the chairman reports back TO the ses-
sion the results of their conferences.
and then the grange as body ap-
proves or disapproves of the report
Legislation Approved.
Among the more important matters
presented by this committee and op-
proved by the delegates were the fol
lowing:
That the legislative committee endeaV-
or TO secure the passage OF Dill Great
ing a legal department under the controi
of the committee of agriculture for the
enforcement of laws on our statute BOOKS
appertaining to the department of aSri-
culture; that we request the legislature
to enact such laws as Will enable the
committee of agriculture to carry on such
investigation as Will furnish definite IN
formation regarding the economics OF the
milk business including the production.
handling and sale of milk, and inaugu-
rate such work as Will protect cohSuW-
ers and encourage those VINO are pioduc-
ing and handling milk in creditaple
way. and in relation to the inspection OF
disease In domestic animals asking that
the owners of diseased cattle shall have
the right to secure a veterinary at his
own expense to act with the commission
er's veterinary, and in case of d!saS ee-
ment the two veterinaries shall secure
the third disinterested veterinary at the
expense of the state and his decision of
the majority of said veterinaries shall be
final. and no animal shall be destroyed
by the commissioner or by his order on
the ground that it is a diseased animal
unless first examined as provided in this
section.
That the present law requiring the
standard apple barrel to have seven
teen and a half inch head be repealed
and that sixteen and half inches be
made the standard; that the grange go
on record as favoring poll taxes and the
re-enactment of the poll tax law; that all
telephone and telegraph lines be placed
under the public utilities commission and
that telephone lines be required to make
such connection as may make efli-
cient Interchange of communication at a
fair and equitable rate; that the state
legislature be asked to pass an amend
ment to the excise law providing that
any person who holds license to sell in
toXcating liquors and who is convicted
of violating such law shall forfeit his IL
/ cense and that no license shall thereafter
| be issued to such person or to any MEM
! Der of his or her family or to any person
/ in his or her employ: that any person
! found hunting or fishing upon the prop
/ erty of another without written consent
/ shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor
! and subject TO fine of not less than $25;
! that the ways and means committee OF
! congress be requested TO make no change
] in the agricultural schedule unless it can
/ be shown that such change will be a di-
\ rect benefit to farmers; that toe class of
hotels known as road houses which have
| sprung up under the Raines law must
! gain the written consent of the majority
! of the property owners living within a
radius of one mile of their proposed To-
| cation before they can be SO located
that we favor a primary election law.
- xrst, Ia
reader an idea Of what the state
/ grange believes IS for the farmers In
terest. But this was the work of only