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He took them over to the house and told the other boys, the 

 httle fellows from one of the neigboring houses, that "you 

 mustn't cut the beet tops off close because if you do they will 

 bleed and all the sweet will come out of them." You'see he 

 had heard somebody say that. He fixed them up and put them 

 in a box and brought them down town, and he says "Grandpa, 

 here is my exhibit." And his mother said, "Don't bother 

 grandpa with that." Why, I wouldn't have had that child set 

 on for $50, because it isn't the proper way to do. If he shows 

 any disposition to do anything, encourage him. And I allowed 

 him to put them on a plate, and about that time dinner was 

 announced so I had to go in. When we came down the little 

 fellow noticed that his plate was still in the library on my table, 

 and he said "Ain't I going to have that taken into the hall?" I 

 says "Sure." He and I carried it in and he got a fifty cent 

 gratuity on it. That is the proper way to use children and 

 encourage them. 



THE GRANGE CO-OPERATIVE COMPANY. 



By W. T. GuPTiLL, Topsham. 



Now I prepared an article to read to you as I supposed the 

 dignity of the Society would demand, but it would be much 

 easier for me if you would lay your dignity aside and dip into 

 me with pertinent questions or any other questions regarding 

 our company, which is a co-operative company of the grange, 

 and let me answer those questions as they come, and you would 

 find in that way exactly what I know about it. What I have 

 written is in regard to the need of a co-operative movement; it 

 is the argument that brought us down in Sagadahoc county to 

 study the question as you would a problem in mathematics. 

 We had first a committee in Sagadahoc county, and afterwards 

 a committee composed of the Pomona Granges, for two years. 

 At the present time the company is a living reality — I mean to 

 say its stock is subscribed for and at the present time we are 

 exactly in the situation that the United States was after a treaty 

 of peace was signed with England, before the constitution was 

 adopted. We are not in a shape to do business at the present 



