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not be a specialist in selling and also in producing, and my idea 

 is for him to employ a person at a living salary, and as a further in- 

 ducement or bait, add a commission. I have in mind a place of twelve 

 stalls, and as soon as T can get the farmers to send in their stuff there, 

 it will be established. It is in a thickly settled part of the com- 

 munity, and it is* not a municipal building, so we will not have to 

 ask councils for the money. When I get several farmers to try out 

 this experiment — for it is an experiment, and we do not know how it 

 will work out — but when ten or twelve farmers come to me and ex- 

 press their willingness to co-operate, we will establish this municipqil 

 market. If it succeeds others will be established. If you are will- 

 ing to come in and try it and put up with the hard times an experi- 

 ment always calls for, it will be the beginning of the solution of the 

 market problem. 



Another thing will be the use of the parcel post. Now that is not 

 any more of a solution than the other, but it is a beginning. In the 

 recent move of the Postoffice Department regarding the distribution 

 of produce through the parcel post, Philadelphia was left out. I 

 was sorry at first, but I am rather glad, because I will be willing 

 to play the jjart of the postmaster has to take the other way, and 

 I will take more interest in seeing you are protected than he prob- 

 ably would. Now I am willing to take the names of farmers who are 

 willing to ship by parcel post, and to give them the names of people, 

 who so far as I know, are thoroughly reliable. 



Mr. Anderson has kindly made mention of this in his paper, the 

 "Pennsylvania Farmer," and I hope the farmers will come forward 

 and show that they are willing to co-operate with this new munici- 

 pal market and make a success of it. 



THE KELATION OF THE GRANGE TO THE FARMERS' 



INSTITUTE 



By E. B. DORSETT 

 THE GRANGE AS AN ORGANIZATION 



In order that we may have a better understanding of the objects 

 and principles of the Grange, it becomes necessary to relate some of 

 its early history. Like all orgahizations that have moved the people 

 of a state or a nation, or performed a work that has brought untold 

 blessings to mankind, it has a history. It did not come into existence 

 by chance, nor did it spring up, as a mushroom, over night; but it 

 came as a ray of sunshine out of the darkened clouds that hung over 

 this country during the Civil War. It came at a time when industry 

 was paralyzed, our fields laid waste, our buildings burned or de- 

 stroyed, and agriculture was at a low ebb. It came as though in- 

 spired of God and guided by His Providence. 



