Year: 1875

and other commodities, which are re-
tailed to members at cost price; and a
system is being organized by which
their ships return with loads of every
foreign article which they may need.
They are thus an independent mer-
cantiIe nation. But they are more.
They have a social, religious and po-
litical as well as cooperative aspect.
They have secret password, renewed
annually. Grange banks, grange plow
manufactures, grange grocery stores,
besides grange poems, grange burial
services. They declare that they are
going to labor for the good of man
kind, of which they intend to raise the
standard. They mean 10 secure ODE
dience to the laws and general brother
hood; and on the other hand, to sup
press fashion, bribery and selfish am
bition. Their very success has made
them run into extravagances, but that
success is social symptom we cannot
afford to disregard


The FARM LABoRER AND GRANGE.
1t is "A mistaken idea that the only
person eligible to membership in the
grange is the farmer who both owns
and tills his land. The man who
makes agriculture his business, though
he does not own single rood of earth,
Is just as eligible as the man who owns
thousand acres. The constitution
says that an applicant for membership
must be engaged in agricultural
pursuits, and have no interest in con
fllct with our purposes The consti-
tuition does not say that he must own
the land he tills; he must be engaged
in agricultural pursuits. The employc
on the farm, known as the "hired
man" is entitled to membership Us far
rs agriculture is concerned and if he
tolls upon the farm all the time, how
can he have an interest in conflict with
our purposes2 OF course the cmploye
ought to be Il man of good habits, and
one that can he trusted. With these
qualifications, God forbid that any.
thing like caste or strata in society
shall keep him out. The writer OF
this well knows the honest laborer on
the farm-patrons, do not ignore him.
We are sure you will Motive are
sure you have not for the trusty man
at your plow or with your stock is a
farmers friend indeed and with your
selves make up the bone and sinew OF
the class of which the order, to be
permanent must he composed. Farm
owners, if you find your help compc
tent, upright, useful and to be trusted,
encourage them-whether male or
fcmale-to enter the grange. Once
there, their interests are your interests;
what they save helps you, what they
learn is for your benefit as well as
their own. Further, the ties of the
grange will make them more compe-
tent, upright and useful, if possible,
than they were before, and besides
they will be more likely tostand by you,
and remain with you, than were you
to make them feel as though they were
but little better than your cattle MAY
God bless the faithful farm laborer,
say we; we know Allah will help the
farm owner who treats his help with
the consideration that one ought to
treat every person who has n living
soul.-FdmG's Friend.


The Alabama grange has appointed
n committee to visit the farm of each
member of that state grange, and to
report in writing the state of the grow
ing crops; condition of farm and
fences; quantity and condition of
stock method of cultivation; rotation
of crops; kinds of crops raised and
! the varieties OF each varieties of fruits
raised, and the general condition of
farm buildings. These reports are not
for publication, unless the owner de
sires, but are to form the subject of
discussion at future meetings. Such
grange work cannot but be profitable
to the community in which it is situ-
ated, and could be initiated by other
oranges with benefit.