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special meetings; but the duties imposed upon this Com- 

 mittee are of such a nature as to require special meet- 

 ings, and, believing-this Grange intended to confer power- 

 sufficient to enable them to discharge the duties of their 

 office promptly and efficiently, they called a special meet- 

 ing, to be held in the city of Chicago on the 27th day of 

 January. This was necessary from the fact that the 

 principal amount of printing had to be done about this 

 time, and if they were to advise the Secretary in the mat- 

 ter, it must be done at this time, and provision made for 

 the payment of the same. Again, the address of S. M. 

 Smith, delivered at the last session of this Grange, was 

 submitted to this Committee to select such portions for 

 publication as they might deem best. This duty the Com- 

 mittee intrusted to its Secretary. The result of his work 

 is found in the printed proceedings. 



Remembering that the Committee were required to 

 cause to be printed in the form of a bulletin, or some- 

 other form, such portions of their proceedings as were 

 proper for publication, and send a copy to each Grange, 

 the Committee gave this subject very careful considera- 

 tion. They received propositions from the Prairie Farmer 

 Company and the proprietors of the Western Farm Jour- 

 rial to print such matter as might be famished them for 

 the good of the Order. That of the Western Farm Jour- 

 nal, being regarded as the more desirable, was accepted 

 for the term of six months. In this arrangement, the 

 publishers were to send one copy to such officer in each 

 Grange as should be designated by the Committee. The 

 only expense of this arrangement to the State Grange, or 

 Patrons, was simply the postage on the papers sent. 

 Something over fifteen hundred copies have been sent to 

 officers of Subordinate Granges under this arrangement. 



By the adoption of the report of the committee on Co- 

 operation at the last session of this Grange, the Commit- 

 tee were instructed to establish an agency in the city of 

 Chicago. After obtaining all the information possible 



