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It is absolutely impossible to give any intelligent estimate of the de- 

 velopment of the noble principles of manhood and womanhood in the 

 mind and heart of the million of people that have been connected 

 with the Order, and of the millions of other people with whom they 

 have been associated. It is along this line that the grandest results 

 have been achieved. Thousands of farm homes have been made 

 happier and better, and the members of farmers' families have been 

 reaping the highest enjoyments of life through the quickened mental 

 abilities by Grange influence, while a high:r ideal in life has been 

 reached by true Grange teaching. With these general statements, we 

 leave the most important results during thirty-two years of Grange 

 work to the imagination of our readers. 



In matters of legislation, among the first objects to claim the 

 attention and engage the efforts of the Grange were the State agri- 

 cultural colleges of the country, many of which in their early days 

 were united with, and became a part of, classical colleges and univer- 

 sities, thus in a large measure destroying their identity as agricul- 

 tural colleges and rendering them practically worthless for the ob- 

 jects for which they were established. 



Through the influence of the Grange a separation has been effected 

 in a majority of states, and distinct agricultural and mechanical col- 

 leges have been established. In most of those states where the eflforts 

 for a separation have not been successful, the college authorities have 

 given much greater recognition to agriculture, and with but few ex- 

 ceptions these institutions are now doing a grand work in educating 

 the farming youth of the nation. 



It was through the direct influence of the Grange that the ad- 

 ditional appropriations for agricultural colleges by Congress were 

 confined to instruction only in agriculture and the mechanic arts. 



The Hatch act for the establishment of State Experiment Stations, 

 which are doing such great work for the agriculture of this country, 

 became a law by reason of the cflforts of the Grange. 



It was through the influence of the Grange that the Department of 

 Agriculture at Washington was raised to the dignity of other departments 

 of the National Governinent, to be presided over by a secretary of Agri- 

 culture in the President's Cabinet, thus giving farmers a voice in the 

 policy of the government. 



Through the direct influence of the Grange the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission was established by act of Congress, which in a measure aims 

 to control interstate traffic, and gives the people a means of redress from 

 the injustice and extortions which are often practiced by corporations, 



