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the wants of suffering Patrons. When the National Grange 

 met in February, 1875, these expenditures were approved, 

 and further appropriations made of five hundred dollars to 

 Arkansas, and three thousand dollars to the state grange of 

 Kansas to enable it to pay its dues to the National Grange. 

 Provision was also made for the executive committee to act as 

 a standing committee on relief, and during the following year 

 it made additional appropriations to Dakota, Arkansas, Missouri, 

 Tennessee, Colorado, and Iowa, which brought the total amount 

 for the year up to ten thousand dollars. During 1876 the state 

 grange of South Carolina received a donation of one thousand 

 dollars to aid sufferers from a prolonged drought in that state. 

 Two hundred and sixty-five dollars were also appropriated for 

 Minnesota, and a special loan of thirty-five thousand dollars to 

 the Nebraska State Grange was made a donation, on account 

 of continued distress in those states. 1 



As in the case of the sufferers from the Mississippi floods, 

 large amounts of money were collected throughout the different 

 states to relieve the sufferers from the grasshopper scourge. 

 Some state granges made specific appropriations and others 

 arranged for committees to collect money from local granges 

 and individual Patrons. In many states over a thousand dollars 

 were thus raised and the contributions from Ohio amounted 

 to $8,783. As a general rule this money seems to have been sent 

 to the masters of the state granges in the affected states and then 

 distributed or expended in the purchase of provisions and seed 

 by relief committees in the respective counties. The Patrons 

 in those parts of Iowa and Missouri which were not afflicted by 

 the grasshoppers seem to have been especially active in the 

 collection of money and supplies for their suffering brethren. 2 



The charitable work of the Patrons of Husbandry was not 

 confined to spectacular cases of disaster affecting whole com- 



1 National Grange, Proceedings, viii. 31, 69, 71, 73-75, 98, 101, 136, ix, 19, 187, 

 196, x. 17, 109, 112, 136 (1875-76). 



2 Prairie Farmer, xlv. 411 (December 26, 1874); Ellis, in Ohio Farmer, ci. 78 

 (January 23, 1902); State grange proceedings: Kansas, iii (1875); Iowa, iv, v 

 (1873, 1874); Michigan, ii, iii (1874, 1875); Missouri, iv (1875); Nebraska, iv 

 (1874); New York, ii (1875); Ohio, ii, iii (1875, 1876); Vermont, i-iii (1872-74). 



