CONTENTS. 13 



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CHAPTER XXIX. 



BANKS AND MONET. 



Farmers need Cheap Money Legislation controlled by Capitalists Farmers 

 and Lawyers in Congress Exemption of Bonds from Taxation Eate of 

 Interest a Test of Prosperity: of Civilization Banks and Banking Sav 

 ings Banks Paper Promises made Legal Tenders Professor Bonainy 

 Price on Crises and Panics Financial Success of English Cooperative 

 Associations 412 



CHAPTEE XXX. 



EXCEPTIONAL CONDITIONS OP THE PACIFIC COAST AFFECTING AGEICULTUEAL PROSPERITY. 



Summary of Advantages : of Disadvantages Wet and Dry Seasons Varia 

 bility of the Average Irregularity in each year Tabular Statement of 

 Extremes of Eain-fall Seasons of Drought Amount of Eain needed to 

 secure a Crop Amount actually Determined Fences and Fuel Forests 

 and the Eain-fall Forests and Inland Navigation . 424 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES. 



Isolation of Farmers Decrease of Agricultural Population : Causes Genesis 

 of the Middle-man : He devours both Farmer and Mechanic Better Ed 

 ucation the Eemedy Eecruits for the Agricultural Army Immigration 

 Table Scandinavia in America Superiority of the Colony System 

 Vineland, a model Eural Colony Outlook and Conclusions. . . ^ 432 



CHAPTEE XXXII. 



SELECTED POETRY FOR THE GRANGE. 



The Granger s Politics, E. W. Emerson s Ode and Boston Hymn 4-45 



The Granger s Religion, &quot;No Sect in Heaven.&quot; 447 



The Granger s Centennial Hymn, by J. G. Whittier 450 



The Celestial Harvest Feast; or, the Eeaper s Dream, by T. B. Read 451 



The Granger s Doxology 454 



