144 THE GHOtJNDSWELL. 



Wisconsin 245 



Colorado 2 



Dakota 29 



Canada 8 



Washington 5 



Maryland 6 



Florida 16 



Total 8260 



Ohio 199 



Oregon 43 



; Pennsylvania 37 



South Carolina 188 



- Tennessee 219 



/Texas 31 



. Vermont 30 



Virginia 8 



. West Virginia 21 



It will thus be seen that there are subordinate Granges 

 established in thirty-six States and Territories, besides 

 those in Canada, where, there is no reason to doubt, the 

 Order will become as popular as it is in the United States. 

 If it is of mushroom growth, its bitterest opponent can not 

 deny that it has the sympathy and support of many of the 

 leading minds of the United States and Canada. A reference 

 to the statistics of the subordinate Granges established in 

 1873 will convince the most skeptical that the growth is 

 entirely healthy; otherwise, its popularity could not so 

 steadily increase. 



STRENGTH OF THE ORDER. 



The strength of the Order has been variously estimated. 

 The membership of the subordinate Granges ranges from 

 eleven to two hundred and fifty. Our figures show eight 

 thousand two hundred and sixty Granges. Taking seventy 

 as a fair average membership for each Grange, which is not 

 too high an estimate, we have a total membership of nearly 

 six hundred thousand. It will undoubtedly be increased, 

 before the first of January, 1874, by a hundred thousand 

 The female membership (included, of course, in the above 

 estimate) is believed to be from seventy-five to one hundred 

 thousand strong. 



