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now has over thirty thousand dollars in bank, and does not 

 owe a dollar. The motto, is &quot; Pay as you go.&quot; This alone 

 ought to commend it to every business man in the land. The 

 Secretary writes : &quot;I make no purchases, except C. 0. D., 

 and every clerk is paid promptly each Saturday night.&quot; 

 The Constitution requires that moneys shall be deposited 

 once a month, but it is proposed to alter this provision so as 

 to require such deposits to be made weekly ; indeed, this has 

 been the practice of the National Secretary for a considerable 

 time past. The depository has, we believe, always been the 

 Farmers Loan and Trust Company, of New York City. 



It has been said that all new organizations must have the 

 measles, whooping-cough, and other infantile complaints. 

 This organization has fairly got through with these disor 

 ders ; indeed they were taken very lightly, and no evils en 

 sued. It is now fully grown, of mature vigor, clear in intel 

 lect, and with conscience unstained. 



WONDERFUL GROWTH OF THE ORDER. 



The Order of Patrons of Husbandry has been repeatedly 

 decried as of mushroom growth, and it has as often been 

 prophesied that its decay would be as speedy. Those who 

 make this assertion are evidently conversant with its history 

 for only the last two years, and even with that but imper 

 fectly. It seems to have been forgotten that the organiza 

 tion is six years old, or else the assumption is made up from 

 the old-fashioned stand-point that, in order to be respectable, 

 an order must be covered with the dust of ages. Such ia 

 not the modern way of organizing reforms. 



Let us look at the real growth of the Order. In tha 

 year 1868, ten subordinate Granges were organized; in 

 1869, thirty-nine; in 1870, thirty-nine; in 1871, one 



