The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-09
STATE MASTER HEALEY
 PROTESTS AGAINST OVER
 TAXATION OF FARM LANDS
In Annual Address to Connecticut State Grange Demands General Parcels
 Post Law

sire a quantity It is only d question of time when the great bulk of the ne cessities of "The Farm Folk waI be purchased in this way. The dispos- ing of the products raised on the farm is another proposition. It is i'm possible. to Sguarantee the honesty of all goods shipped from so many differ ent farms, and unUl we are ready to stay together" and adopt methods which make success in other sections of our country, we shall each have to
 market our own farm products. Our National Master well said that t'The cooperative principle is sound and is determined to govern the immense vol ume of trade from the farm to the city and from the city to the farm. But we must be careful to establish real Cooperative societies, conducted for the benefit of all the members and not for the profit of a few promoters.s' we believe, continue to be by the indi- vidual member and not Grange wise.
 FIELD MEETINGS.
 Field meetings are held by every State Grange in one way or another. Some hold them in the form of fairs, others as county pscnics and some as actual Field Meetings. This is an in novation which we as a State have been slow to adopt. A visit to real farm home is instructive and enter and sister member. It enables us to see that, not only things are done, but to SeeA how they are done. Farm tn- stitutes are coming to be a. common Associations. Their general adoption by the Grange would be a step of ad- vancement
 EDUCATION.
 An old Nsaying -'Know,ecige is IOw- CT" is just as true to-day as ever But there Is d revised version that thIs knowledge must be special instruction along the line of work in which the
 person is engaged. The education of the day is to train the hand along with the mind.
 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Most of us have seen this Institution grow from a small school to a col ] lege, well worthy of it's name. And this in a period of a few years. Build
 ings have been erected from time to courses of study have been adopted, and all lines of the college work changed to meet the needs of the far \ mer. The Grange has ever stood be- | hind the College and now the College $ in a position of Gnfiuence and can | help the farmer. Agriculture does not depend upon other industries but other ! industries depend upon agriculture a for prosperity. Some of our great think l CTS have predicted that the farmer | must double the production on each of
 his acres 6n order to support our in- | creaSing population. Whi ie we have | no fear of this for many years yet, it
 s necessary for the farmer to know how to increase his yield per acre to get a fair profit. Hence the impor- =ance of more intelli gent farm man. | agement. This cannot be accomplish ] d in a better and more scientific way
 han by sending our boys and girls to l receive the lessons as taught by our | Agricultural College
 | NATIONAL GRANGE OFFICIAL . | ORGAN
 1 While our local papers keep us in- | orned state-wfSe We must look to our | National paper for Grange happenings l Is they occur in every State. One | year ago we said to you that unless 1 Tou assisted in the support of the paper 1t must fail of success. You did | 'ssist and at the present time only l ne other State, and that Massachu- | settS. has more subscribers than Con | 7ecticut in proportion to our member | ship It has been demonstrated that | while it assists in retaining the inter I est in the old Grange it materially aids