The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-06-24
STATE GRANGE
MEETS AT COLLEGE
ANNUAL MEETING OF FARMERS
ORGANIZATION HELD HERE
LAST WEEK
GRANGE VOTES TO MEET HERE N 1916
Visitors Are Well Pleased With Brook
ings-President Perisho Delivers
an Interesting Address

The annual meeting Of the South
Dakota State Grange was held at the
State College Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday of last week. Between
seventy-fve and a hundred delegates
were present and the meetings were of
much interest to members of the order.
The organization was SO well pleased
with Bookings that they decided to
hold their 1916 meeting here.
The following report of the meeting
has been handed to the Register:
The seventh annual session Of the
South Dakota State Grange met in the
old chapel at the college at II a. M,
June 16 and opened in the fifth degree
and after ~obligating the delegates,
changed to the fourth degree for the
rest Of the session except when the
higher degrees were being exempliied.
The principal order Of business was:
Music, Prof. Hedge of the college; Call
ing the Roll of Oranges; Appointment
of Committees; Masters Annual Ad-
dress; Reports of State Officers; "The
Problems of a New Grange and How to
Solve Them" by J. H. Hutchinson of
White; Reports Of Oranges; and in the
evening DR.. B. r. Green gave his lee
ture on his recent trip to Europe,
which was given close and apprecia-
tive attention by a large audience.
On June 18th, after music by the
Music Department of the college, Prof.
C. Larsen was elected Overseer for
one year to fill vacancy caused by the
death of H. E. Manning, and ]. H.
Faulkner was elected a member of
the executive committee for three
years, vice D. Thornburg, of Kidder,
whose term had expired.
Then followed a reading and explain
alton of the "Cypher Code" by the
Worthy Master. followed by an ad-
dress by President E. c. Perisho at the
auditorium; selection of the next place
of meeting, which vas decided for
Brookings again; Reading; Exempli-
flying the Fifth Degree; "The Market
ing of Farm Products" by Prof. Hard
ing of the college; Discussion of the
reports of the committees, and in the
evening the Sixth Degree was given
to a large class.
On Friday, June IS, the reports and
discussions were continued, then Off
GERS elect were installed; Memorial
services held for the late H. E. Man
ming, Worthy Overseer, and at 3 p. m.
grange closed and the most Of the
members spent the remainder Of the
day inspecting the college.
Mrs. C. w. Milbrandt, Mrs. Earl E.
Ryder and Mrs. c. Larsen were ap-
pointed a committee on woman's work.
for the next year and J. H. Hutchin-
son of White, a committee on grange
cooperation and incorporation.
In discussing the special lines OF
work pursued by the efficient faculty
Of the State College. President Perisho
in his address paid special emphasis
to the work of cooperation. Effective
cooperation" said he, "is Of two
kinds; first, assisting in the production
and second, in the disposition Of the
products produced. Much is said these
days concerning the cooperation with
farmers in finding a market, but SELL
ing cooperation is of little value un
less you have something to sell. A
market is of little use If you have not
produced something to place upon the
market. You must produce before
you need help in distribution. Hence
the State College devotes its first CO.
operative assistance in helping the
farmers to produce. Farm products
are naturally Of two kinds, crops and
stock.
"Of the work of the State College
in assisting the farmers Of South Da-
kota to produce pure bred seed. thus
increasing their grain crops. is of as
much Importance to successful agricul-
ture as the raising Of pure bred horses
or cattle. 1t is not only a question of
the purity of seed but also its es-
pecial adaptability to the section of
the state in which 1t is grown that
means much to the successful farmer.
It becomes at once. then, the duty of
the State College. II 1t successfully Co
operates with the farmers Of the state.
TO not only produce well bred but the
hind q seed that 10 peculiarly well
adapted to out state. No finer example