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ing both sides makes it impossible for your committee 

 intelligently in the case; and would therefore recommend that 

 the case be referred to the Executive Committee for further 

 investigation and action. 



Signed, 



Henry Mundy, ) 



C. F. Mills, [■ Committee. 



J. B. Courtney, ) 



The following resolution, introduced by Bro. J. F. Gammon, 

 of Bond county, was adopted: 



Besolved, That E. H. Doualdson be receivtd as a substitute for M. W. 

 Nelson, the delegate from Bond county, who failed to come. 



Bro. Parker, Chairman Committee on Purchasing Agency 

 System, made the following report, which was received, amended 

 and adopted, to read as follows: 



Your Committee, appointed for the purpose of suggesting a 

 plan and policy of State and County Agencies, beg leave to 

 submit the following: 



That confidence, concentration and cash basis are the key- 

 notes to success. 



That to induce success, greater concert of action should exist 

 between the agencies of different States, counties and Subordi- 

 nate Granges, and the price list of one should be the price list 

 of all. 



That each County Grange should become incorporated, and 

 their Executive Committee should appoint an Agent to take 

 charge of their warehouse and business, who should give bond 

 to be held responsible for all goods or their value. 



That our trade should be confined to our own agencies exclu- 

 sively, and the Grange should keep their agents posted as to 

 kind of goods wanted. Every Grange furnish blanks to make 

 monthly reports to the County Agent through their Secretary. 



That our County Agent should attend to the ordering of such 

 supplies as the members may desire to purchase from abroad. 



That agents should not be required to make arrangements for 

 more than three good implements of a given kind. 



So far as possible members should purchase all supplies in 

 bulk, and in all cases should purchase home-made implements 

 and patronize manufactories in their own locality whenever a 

 first-class article can be had as cheap as from other manufact- 

 ories. 



That the terms of all business arrangements and contracts for 

 sale or purchase of farm machinery, merchandise, etc., effected 



